A modern guide to uneven economic development
"In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests its...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Series: | Elgar modern guides
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 14. Recent experiences of successful economic policies: The case of uzbekistan / Vladimir Popov
- Part V. Finance versus the real economy
- 15. Uneven development, financialised capitalism and subordination / Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Jeff Powell
- 16. Unequal growth and the single currency: The fiscal policy paradox / Jan Kregel
- Part VI. Ecology
- 17. Identifying ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system: Implications for development / Alf Hornborg
- Conclusion: What are the important lessons from history? / Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
- Index
- 7. The need to centre imperialism in studies of uneven development / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
- 8. Imperialism: A note on the unequal treaties of modern China and Japan / Xuan Zhao
- Part III. Understanding mechanisms that create and prevent inequality
- 9. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong enlightenment? / Andrea Saltelli and Erik S. Reinert
- 10. Technological retrogression and persistent poverty / Sylvi B. Endresen
- Part IV. When nations and systems decline and collapse
- 11. When nations collapse: A note on jacob bielfeld's 'on the decline of states' (1760) / Erik S. Reinert
- 12. Free trade with the former comecon countries as unequal exchange / Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Andrea Saltelli, Magdalena Olczyk and Erik S. Reinert
- 13. Escaping the poverty trap in China: The co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development / Ting Xu
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents: Introduction: Uneven development - addressing causes versus treating symptoms / Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
- Part I. Nature-made versus policy-made sources of uneven development
- 1. Uneven economic development: Identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics / Erik S. Reinert
- 2. Geography, uneven development and population density: Attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development / Erik S. Reinert, Salah Chafik and Xuan Zhao
- 3. Redirecting growth: Inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led / Mariana Mazzucato and Carlota Perez
- Part II. Assumptions, abstractions and approaches to uneven development
- 4. Altered states: Cartesian and ricardian dreams / Erik S. Reinert, Monica Di Fiore, Andrea Saltelli and Jerome R. Ravetz
- 5. Gender and uneven development / Lyn Ossome
- 6. Dependency theory: Strengths, weaknesses, and its relevance today / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven