Embedded Autonomy : : States and Industrial Transformation / / Peter B. Evans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Evans, Peter B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 tables

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. States and Industrial Transformation -- 2. A Comparative Institutional Approach -- 3. States -- 4. Roles and Sectors -- 5. Promotion and Policing -- 6. State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry -- 7. The Rise of Local Firms -- 8. The New Internationalization -- 9. Lessons from Informatics -- 10. Rethinking Embedded Autonomy -- Notes -- References -- Index