Development and Planning (Routledge Library Editions: Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138880833 ISBN 13: 9781138880832

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.The book includes reviews of past developments, chapters on development trade and value theory, an assessment of contemporary emerging economic patterns, development and trade policy, and investment policy. Further essays cover the intellectual history of development economics, general aspects of growth and economic policy in underdeveloped countries and the problems of income distribution and sectoral and regional development.

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About the Author

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor at Columbia University and External Advisor to the Director General, World Trade Organization and Senior Fellow for International Economics with the Council on Foreign Relations. He was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2003.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138880833
• ISBN 13: 9781138880832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346
• Editor: Bhagwati Jagdish, Eckhaus Richard