A Modern Guide To Uneven Economic Development

Author : Erik S. Reinert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788976541
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development written by Erik S. Reinert and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 itself. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender, and geography, considering the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors.

Author : Drahokoupil, Jan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788975103
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy written by Drahokoupil, Jan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.

Author : Nikolaos Karagiannis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789905087
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to State Intervention written by Nikolaos Karagiannis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} A Modern Guide to State Intervention investigates the impact of the changing role of the state, offering an alternative political economy for the third decade of the twenty-first century. Building on important factors including history, the role of institutions, society and economic structures, this Modern Guide considers economic and administrative interventions towards changing the destabilized status quo of modern societies.

Author : Colin C. Williams
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788975618
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy written by Colin C. Williams and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of the global workforce are employed and which has pervasive detrimental effects. Formalising it is therefore a priority for most governments.

Author : Thomas Piketty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979850
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital in the Twenty-First Century written by Thomas Piketty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

Author : E. Wayne Nafziger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176548X
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Development written by E. Wayne Nafziger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. The book is suitable for those with a background in economics principles. Nafziger explains the reasons for the recent fast growth of India, Poland, Brazil, China, and other Pacific Rim countries, and the slow, yet essential, growth for a turnaround of sub-Saharan Africa. The fifth edition of the text, written by a scholar of developing countries, is replete with real-world examples and up-to-date information. Nafziger discusses poverty, income inequality, hunger, unemployment, the environment and carbon-dioxide emissions, and the widening gap between rich (including middle-income) and poor countries. Other new components include the rise and fall of models based on Russia, Japan, China/Taiwan/Korea, and North America; randomized experiments to assess aid; an exploration of whether information technology and mobile phones can provide poor countries with a shortcut to prosperity; and a discussion of how worldwide financial crises, debt, and trade and capital markets affect developing countries.

Author : Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139450905
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution written by Mariana Mazzucato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by internationally acclaimed experts in the economics of innovation, this volume examines how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by the dynamics of innovation, institutions, and public policy. It contributes both theoretically and empirically to the increasingly influential Schumpetarian framework in industrial economics, which places innovation at the centre of the analysis of competition. Both quantitative and qualitative studies are included, and this varied perspective adds to the richness of the volume's insights. The contributors explore different ideas regarding the historical evolution of technology in the sector, and how firms and industry structure have co-evolved with innovation dynamics. Important policy questions are considered regarding the future of innovation in this sector and its impact on the economy.

Author : Gary P. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429043802
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finance Capital And Uneven Development written by Gary P. Green and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ilias Alami
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000769003
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets written by Ilias Alami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored in light of the positionality of emerging markets within the network of space and power relations that characterises contemporary global finance. The book develops a multi-disciplinary perspective and combines insights from Marxist political economy, post-Keynesian economics, economic geography, and postcolonial and feminist International Political Economy. Alami comprehensively reviews the theories, histories, and geographies of cross-border finance management, and develops a conceptual framework which allows unpacking the complex entanglement of constraint and opportunities, of growing integration and tight discipline, that cross-border finance represents for emerging markets. Extensive fieldwork research provides an in-depth comparative critical interrogation of the policies and regulations deployed in Brazil and South Africa. This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international political economy, contemporary geographies of money and finance, and critical development studies. It should also prove of interest to policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between finance and development in emerging markets and beyond.

Author : ?evket Pamuk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691166374
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uneven Centuries written by ?evket Pamuk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Şevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and human development of Turkey over the past two hundred years. Taking a comparative global perspective, Pamuk investigates Turkey’s economic history through four periods: the open economy during the nineteenth-century Ottoman era, the transition from empire to nation-state that spanned the two world wars and the Great Depression, the continued protectionism and import-substituting industrialization after World War II, and the neoliberal policies and the opening of the economy after 1980. Making use of indices of GDP per capita, trade, wages, health, and education, Pamuk argues that Turkey’s long-term economic trends cannot be explained only by immediate causes such as economic policies, rates of investment, productivity growth, and structural change. Uneven Centuries offers a deeper analysis of the essential forces underlying Turkey’s development—its institutions and their evolution—to make better sense of the country’s unique history and to provide important insights into the patterns of growth in developing countries during the past two centuries.