Social capability and long-term economic growth
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Social capability and long-term economic growth
St. Martin's Press , Macmillan, c1995
- : us
- : uk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What accounts for the varying long term growth patterns across developing countries? Why were some economies able to achieve sustained and rapid growth in the past three decades, while others failed? In Social Capability and Long-Term Economic Growth, an impressive panel of economists come together to develop a theory of long-term growth, focusing on the dynamic relationship between the social capability to manage scarce resources and long-term growth. Various theoretical issues concerning social capability are explored, and in-depth case-studies of the development experiences of Asian, Latin American, and socialist economies are presented with significant empirical findings. The authors argue that a nation's social capability to efficiently manage human resources is a crucial ingredient for sustaining growth. This study is a serious response to the important question of how a poor developing country can transform itself into a developed one, and its findings offer valuable insight to the development of a long-term growth theory and to economic development policies.
Table of Contents
- Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: INTRODUCTION
- D.H.Perkins & B.H.Koo - PART 2: THEORETICAL ISSUES ON SOCIAL CAPABILITY - Returns to Scale, Information, and Economic Growth
- K.J.Arrow - The Elements of Social Capability
- M.Abramovitz - Social Absorption Capability and Innovation
- J.E.Stiglitz - Social Absorption Capability, National Innovation Systems and Economic Development
- C.J.Dahlman & R.Nelson - Social Absorption Capability and Economic Development
- L.Hurwicz - Long-run Growth and Public Policy
- V.Tanzi - PART 3: SOCIAL CAPABILITY: COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE - Decentralized Information Processing and Hierarchical Monitoring: The Case of Japan
- M.Aoki - Sociocultural Factors in the Industrialization of Korea
- B.H.Koo - The Puzzles of Fairly Fast Growth and Rapid Collapse Under Socialism
- S.Gomulka - The Transition from Central Planning: East Asia's Experience
- D.H.Perkins - Latin American Development: From the 'Black Box' to the 'Empty Box'
- F.Fajnzylber - Absorptive Capacity and Industrial Growth: A Conceptual Framework and Korea's Experience
- L.Kim - Why Growth Rates Differ: The Political Economy of Social Capability in 21 Developing Countries
- D.Lal - Social Capability and Long-term Economic Growth
- L.B.Krause - Index
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