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The Role of the State in Economic Change (Hardcover)
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The Role of the State in Economic Change (Hardcover)
Series: WIDER Studies in Development Economics
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The role of the state has occupied centre stage in the development
of economics as an independent discipline and is one of the most
contentious issues addressed by contemporary economists and
political economists. The immediate post-war years saw a swing in
economic theory towards interventionism, motivated by the urgent
need for reconstruction in advanced capitalist countries, the
establishment of socialism in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe, and
the liberation of many developing nations from colonialism. After a
quarter of a century of interventionist policies, a vigourous
backlash against state intervention began with the discrediting of
welfare statism in advanced capitalist countries, grew through the
spread of liberalisation programmes among developing nations during
the 1980s, and culminated in the dismantling of socialist central
planning since 1989. In this volume, ten distinguished contributors
examine patterns of interventionism and anit-interventionism in a
wide variety of historical, political and institutional contexts
and within different theoretical traditions. Their primary focus is
on the internal factors which shape the role of the state and
determine its effectiveness in promoting economic change. They
explain the growing disenchantment with the Neo-Liberal,
anti-interventionist programme-even in Eastern Europe and the
former USSR, where the initial optimism in the efficacy of the free
market is fading fast. The overall conclusion of the empirical and
theoretical analysis is that the simplistic notion of politics
fundamental to Neo-Liberal arguments makes them at best misleading
and at worst deceitful. Although one can talk of certain general
principles, there is no hard and fast rule to determine the optimal
degree and the desirable areas of state intervention, which can
only be determined in the concrete historical, institutional, and
geographical context. The challenge is to form a new synthesis in
which the valid insights of Neo-Liberalism are stripped of their
ideological baggage and intergrated into a wider and more objective
intellectual framework.
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