Collapse of Development Planning / / Peter J. Boettke.

Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. Yet, after decades of international aid programs, development planning is today largely perceived as a failure paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and inefficien...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1994]
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Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
Series:Political Economy of Austrian School ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL Series
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1. Theory
  • 2. Money and Capital in Economic Development
  • 3. The Theory of Economic Development and the "European Miracle''
  • II. Case Studies of Planning
  • 4. The Political Economy of Development in Communist China: China and the Market
  • 5. The Failure of Development Planning in India
  • 6. The Failure of Development Planning in Africa
  • III. The Record on Foreign Aid and Advice
  • 7. The World Bank and the IMF: Misbegotten Sisters
  • 8. Does Eastern Europe Need a New (Marshall) Plan?
  • IV. The Political Economy of the Asian Miracle
  • IV. The Political Economy of the Asian Miracle 229 9. Industrial Policy as the Engine of Economic Growth in South Korea: Myth and Reality
  • 10. The Political Economy of Post-World War II Japanese Development: A Rent-Seeking Perspective
  • V. Market Solutions to Economic Development
  • 11. Privatization and Development: The Case of Sri Lanka
  • 12. Financial Reform and Economic Development: The Currency Board System for Eastern Europe
  • Contributors
  • Index