The Political Economy of Development: A Game Theoretic Approach

ISBN-13: 9781108837507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Robert H. Bates

Opis

Explores the relationship between a government's political choices and its country's level of development.

Recenzje

'The specialist reader and the graduate student will do well in reading the book, pencil in hand, thinking of further insights about the political economy of development to be gained from the game theoretic approach.' Cesar Martinelli, Political Science Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Societies Without States; 3. An Impossibility Result?; 4. From Kinship to the State; 5. Restraining the Leviathan: Part I; 6. Restraining the Leviathan: Part II; 7. The Political Impetus for The Great Transformation; 8. Shaping the Path of Growth and Development; 9. Conclusion.