Development economics: from the poverty to the wealth of nations

Provides a comprehensive treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and development issues. This work addresses one basic question: why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remains poor and stag...nant?This textbook provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. Grown out of twenty years' experience of teaching in the United States and Japan, its treatment is global, although the organizing principle is the East Asian development experience. Taking a comparative institutional analysis approach, it also outlines quantitative characteristics of Third World development in terms of population growth, natural resource depletion, capital accumulation, and technological change. Development Economics addresses one major question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remain poor and stagnant? One obvious factor is a the ability to adopt and develop advanced technology, due in large measure to the difficulty experienced by low-income economies in preparing appropriate institutions for borrowing advanced technology gi Ausführliche Beschreibung Beschreibung ausblenden

1. Person:	Hayami, Yujiro
Weitere Personen:	Godo, Yoshihisa
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2005
Beschreibung:	XVIII, 430 S. graph. Darst.
Ausgabe:	3. ed., 1. publ.
Schlagworte (SWD):	Wirtschaftsentwicklung Entwicklungstheorie
Schlagworte (STW):	Entwicklung Entwicklungstheorie
Schlagworte (SH):	Economic development
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