Structural Change in the World Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Structural Change in the World Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Webster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1135095833

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The chapters in this edited collection, first published in 1990, examine the key aspects of change in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century and the role of national government policies in this. Drawing on material from a wide range of disciplines, including international trade, technology and economic history, the authors discuss the implications of these changes for the world’s leading capitalist economies. With an analysis of the prospects for the future, this relevant title will be of particular value to students of business studies and economics and those researching the global economy over the past thirty years.

Structural Change in the World Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Structural Change in the World Economy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Allan Webster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1135095906

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The chapters in this edited collection, first published in 1990, examine the key aspects of change in the global economy at the end of the twentieth century and the role of national government policies in this. Drawing on material from a wide range of disciplines, including international trade, technology and economic history, the authors discuss the implications of these changes for the world’s leading capitalist economies. With an analysis of the prospects for the future, this relevant title will be of particular value to students of business studies and economics and those researching the global economy over the past thirty years.

Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)
Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Richard Higgott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134621485

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The articles in this edited collection, first published in 1985, consider the competing theories of the nature of development and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia. Each chapter challenges the academic orthodoxies and dominant traditions of Southeast Asian studies, particularly in relation to orientalist history, behaviourist political science and development economics. Overall, the contributions offer an alternative framework for analysis, which considers the structural changes to the political economy of Southeast Asia, as well as the relationship between the state, economy and class at a domestic level. This is a fascinating collection, of value to students and academics with an interest in Southeast Asian politics, economics and history.

The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies (Routledge Revivals)
The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Jan Winiecki

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-16

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1136668217

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The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an attempt to explain why they were performing so poorly in comparison with the economies of the Western powers and the capitalist countries of South-East Asia. First published in 1988 this substantial and innovative contribution to the critical literature on the economies of the former Soviet bloc is unusual in that its author is equally familiar with both Western and Eastern sources. It highlights, in particular, a discrepancy between the behaviour of individuals in Soviet-style economies and that expected of agents in a market system. It proceeds to outline how the consequent discordance between microeconomic practice and macroeconomic planning generates fundamental economic distortions.

Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals)
Microeconomic Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Currie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1317214889

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First published in 1981, this book brings together a collection of essays on microeconomics and development presented at the conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics. Topics covered include the intergenerational transfer of economic inequality, a review of the recent development in the theory of equity in the economy’s distribution and production process, labour and unemployment, market structure and international trade, taxation and the public sector, Third World industrialisation and Indian agriculture. This book will be of interest to students of Economics and Development Studies.

Shortcut or Piecemeal
Shortcut or Piecemeal

Author: Jan Winiecki

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9633861446

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Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that gap and to provide a theoretical background to the shift from industry to human capital-intensive services as the engine of economic growth. Pioneering studies reveal interesting trends and patterns that point to the growing importance of intangible capital for the level of GDP. They also indicate a much greater role of economic freedom in bringing about this second great structural change than was the case with industrialization. With this perspective on structural change and the role of freedom, Shortcut or Piecemeal also provides an extensive assessment of four key developing countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Subjects: 1. Central planning—History. 2. Economic development—History

The German Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)
The German Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Hans-Joachim Braun

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1136836446

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First published in 1990, this book traces the logic and the peculiarities of German economic development through the Weimar Republic, Third Reich and Federal Republic. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the period. The book also assesses controversial issues, such as the origins of the Great Depression, the primacy of politics or economics in the decision to invade Poland and the future risks to the Weltmeister economy of the Federal Republic oppressed by unemployment, the huge debts of some of its trading partners, and the possibility of worldwide protectionism.

Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour
Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour

Author: Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1000918203

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This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism – that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon – needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India. It examines the opportunities which colonialism presented for these people, highlighting also the British approach to colonialism in Malaya, an approach which emphasised conservativism and tradition, and which protected the interests of the Malay aristocrat classes and, by extension, the Malay masses in order to compensate for European economic dominance and the influx of a non-Malay labour force. Overall, the book demonstrates that the South Indians, a class whose identity, social existence, and prospects were inextricably linked to imperial processes, benefitted from colonialism, and should be viewed as an active transnational entity within a constructive system, rather than as passive victims of repressive, destructive forces.