In Search of Prosperity : : Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth /

In Search of Prosperity : : Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth / / ed. by Dani Rodrik.

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The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of the most important growth puzzles of our time....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Acemoglu, Daron,
Careaga, Maite,
Clark, Gregory,
DeLong, J. Bradford,
Easterly, William,
Hausmann, Ricardo,
Johnson, Simon,
Kaufmann, Daniel,
Mastruzzi, Massimo,
McLean, Ian W.,
Menil, Georges de,
Pritchett, Lant,
Robinson, James A.,
Rodrik, Dani,
Roy, Devesh,
Subramanian, Arvind,
Taylor, Alan M.,
Temple, Jonathan,
Weingast, Barry R.,
Wolcott, Susan,
Zavaleta, Diego,
HerausgeberIn:
Rodrik, Dani,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2003
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 73 line illus. 94 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: What Do We Learn from Country Narratives?
  • Part I: Historical Perspectives on Economic Growth
  • Chapter 2. Australian Growth: A California Perspective
  • Chapter 3. One Polity, Many Countries: Economic Growth in India, 1873-2000
  • Chapter 4. An African Success Story: Botswana
  • Part II: Transitions Into and Out of Growth
  • Chapter 5. A Toy Collection, a Socialist Star, and a Democratic Dud? Growth Theory, Vietnam, and the Philippines
  • Chapter 6. Growing Into Trouble: Indonesia After 1966
  • Chapter 7. India since Independence: An Analytic Growth Narrative
  • Chapter 8. Who Can Explain the Mauritian Miracle? Meade, Romer, Sachs, or Rodrik?
  • Chapter 9. Venezuela's Growth Implosion: A Neoclassical Story?
  • Chapter 10. History, Policy, and Performance in Two Transition Economies: Poland and Romania
  • Part Iii: Institutions in Detail
  • Chapter 11. How Reform Worked in China
  • Chapter 12. Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?
  • Chapter 13. Fiscal Federalism, Good Governance, and Economic Growth in Mexico
  • Part IV: Economic Growth without Social Development
  • Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan
  • Index

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