Issues in Economic Development and Globalization: Essays in Honour of Ajit Singh

ISBN-13: 9780230203587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 278 str.

Philip Arestis; John Eatwell

Opis

Containing expert contributions from a variety of scholars working in these areas of research, this book explores contemporary concerns in economic development and globalization as well as examining how the issues have changed since Ajit Singh first began working on these subjects.

Spis treści

A Letter to Ajit; A.Sen Foreword; G.Harcourt Introduction: Ajit Singh; P.Arestis and J.Eatwell The Third World Industrial Revolution in Historical Perspective; H-J.Chang Explaining Differential Performance: The Institutional Factor in Indian and Chinese Development; A.Saith The Renaissance of China and India: Implications for the Advanced Economies; B.Rowthorn The Rise of China and India: Implications for Developing Countries; D.Nayyar China's Impact on Sub-Saharan African Development: Trade, Aid and Politics; J.Toye The Contradictions of Capitalist Globalisation; P.Nolan Europe's Future: Income Convergence to Fight Unemployment; J.Galbraith Heckscher-Ohlin in Theory and Reality; A.Wood Growth Rates, Economic Structure, Energy Use and Sources of Demand; C.Rada von Arnim and L.Taylor Macro Adjustment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities; A.Langer and F.Stewart Ajit Singh Publications Epilogue; A.Amsden

O autorze

ALICE AMSDEN Barton L Weller Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA HA-JOON CHANG Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, UK JAMES GALBRAITH Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA GEOFF HARCOURT Fellow, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK ARNIM LANGER Research Officer in Economics and Politics (West Africa), Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford DEEPAK NAYYAR Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India PETER NOLAN Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK CODRINA RADA VON ARNIM Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah, USA BOB ROWTHORN Emeritus Professor and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, UK ASHWANI SAITH Professor of Rural Economics, Department of Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands FRANCES STEWART Director, Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), University of Oxford, UK LANCE TAYLOR New School University, USA JOHN TOYE Department of International Development, University of Oxford, UK ADRIAN WOOD Professor of International Development, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK