Reimagining growth : towards a renewal of development theory

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Reimagining growth : towards a renewal of development theory

edited by Silvana De Paula and Gary A. Dymski

Zed Books, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Neoclassical economic theory and development economics have failed to deliver the much higher rates of growth and overall development that they promised would result from the freeing up of markets. This book takes issue with the nostrums that underlie free market policies in both developing countries and the rich industrial nations. The contributors want to rethink economics as a discipline and development as a process. Economics needs to redefine many of its concepts to reflect the complex realities of functioning economies. And development needs to be reconceived as a process of social change, in which each country's particular history and institutional workings take centre stage. They point the way to a much more sophisticated understanding of economic development. The ultimate prize, if theory can be grounded in a more accurate analysis of social change, is policies that really will deliver higher economic growth and greater social justice worldwide.

Table of Contents

Part I: Framing the Problem 1. Introduction - Silvana De Paula and Gary A. Dymski 2. The Planned Development of Latin America: A Rhetorical Analysis of Three Documents from the 1950s - Ana Maria Bianchi 3. The Other Canon and Uneven Growth : The Activity-specifc Elements of Economic Development - Erik S. Reinert Part II: Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Macrostructures in Development 4. Institutions and Economic Development: Constraining, Enabling and Reconstituting - Geoffrey M. Hodgson 5. The Role of Institutions in Economic Change - Ha-Joon Chang and Peter Evans 6. Banking and Financing of Development: A Schumpeterian and Minskyian Perspective - Jan Kregel and Leonardo Burlamaqui Part III: Rethinking the Microstructure of Development: Individuals and Communities in Global and Local Spaces 7. Consumer Society: What Opportunities for New Expressions of Citizenship and Control? - John Wilkinson 8. Society, Community, and Economic Development - Michael Storper 9. Poverty and Social Discrimination: A Spatial Keynesian Approach - Gary A. Dymski Part IV: Rethinking the Participatory Process: Local and Global Connections 10. The World Social Forum: A Space for the Translation of Diversity in Social Mobilization - Nelson Giordano Delgado and Jorge O. Romano

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  • NCID
    BA72509200
  • ISBN
    • 1842775847
    • 1842775855
  • LCCN
    2004042346
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 308 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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