The Role of the State in Economic Change (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)

Ha-Joon Chang and Robert Rowthorn (eds).

ISBN 10: 0198289847 / ISBN 13: 9780198289845

Published by Oxford University Press, 1997

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Inscribed by Ha-Joon Chang. xii + 320 pages : 24 cm. The role of the state has occupied centre stage in the development of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most contentious issues addressed by contemporary economists and political economists. The immediate post-war years saw a swing in economic theory towards interventionism, motivated by the urgent need for reconstruction in advanced capitalist countries, the establishment of socialism in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe, and the liberation of many developing nations from colonialism. After a quarter of a century of interventionist policies, a vigourous backlash against.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Role of the State in Economic Change (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198289847
• ISBN 13: 9780198289845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Development Studies
  • Economics
  • Politics

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Synopsis

The role of the state has occupied center stage in the development of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most contentious issues addressed by contemporary economists and political economists. In this volume, ten distinguished contributors examine patterns of interventionism and anti-interventionism in a wide variety of historical, political and institutional contexts and within different theoretical traditions. At the center of their analysis is the challenge of forming a new synthesis in which the valid insights of the dominant Neo-Liberalism anti-interventionism are stripped of their ideological baggage and integrated into a wider and more objective intellectual framework.

About the Author

Robert Rowthorn is at University of Cambridge.