The uses of diversity : essays in polycentricity
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Bibliographic Information
The uses of diversity : essays in polycentricity
(Polycentricity : studies in institutional diversity and voluntary governance)
Lexington Books, c2020
- : cloth
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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
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The author argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, strategies for development, and human discourse in general. The opening chapter develops the vision of Jane Jacobs (the "diva of diversity") for the development of city regions. Many of the later chapters are based on the author's ten years in the World Bank and Senior Advisor and speechwriter for Joseph Stiglitz. Many of the problems in the World Bank's policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of pragmatic approaches to the complex questions of economic and social development. Finally, the narrow social-engineering criterion for evaluating social projects is cost-benefit analysis, and the penultimate chapter develops a logical fallacy in the Kaldor-Hicks Principle that is the theoretical basis for cost-benefit analysis.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Jane Jacobs: The Diva of Diversity
Chapter 2: Two Institutional Logics: Exit Vs. Voice and Commitment
Chapter 3: Parallel Experimentation
Chapter 4: Contestation and Devil's Advocacy
Chapter 5: The Indirect Approach
Chapter 6: Knowledge and Autonomy-Compatible Development Assistance
Chapter 7: Investment Climate for Whom?: Rethinking Globalization
Chapter 8: Revisiting the Privatization Debates
Chapter 9: The Logical Fallacy in the Kaldor-Hick Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis
Chapter 10: A Summing Up
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