Adjusting to Reality: Beyond 'State Versus Market' in Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9781032040080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 324 str.

Robert Klitgaard

Opis

Originally published in 1991, this book highlights overlooked causes of underdevelopment. Using global examples as well as analytical frameworks to guide inclusive policy discussions, theorists will enjoy the novel uses of industrial economics, the theory of the firm, and the economics of discrimination.

Spis treści

1. Beyond ‘State versus Market’ 2. The Socioeconomic Environment Constrains Market and State 3. Information and Market Institutions 4. Information and Markets: Two Examples 5. Actions by Buyers, Sellers and Governments. Appendix: Improving Market Information – A Framework for Policy Analysis 6. Making Government Institutions Work Better 7. Improving Incentives in the Public Sector 8. Curbing Government Corruption 9. Decentralization and Integration 10. Poverty and Ethnic Groups in Developing Countries 11. Three Strategies for Overcoming Ethnic Inequalities 12. The Evolution, Maintenance and Reduction of Ethnic Inequalities 13. Rethinking Economic Development.

O autorze

Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University. Formerly a professor at Harvard, Yale, and the National University of Singapore, he has also served as the Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, America’s foremost Ph.D. program in policy analysis. His eleven books include Tropical Gangsters, named one of the New York Times Books of the Century.