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This edited volume examines the relationship between economic
ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing
the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and
Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light
on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth
of these countries and examines the origins of national and
regional approaches to development. The chapters present a
fascinating insight into the ideas and visions in the different
locations, with the overarching categories of economic nationalism
and economic liberalism and how they have influenced development
outcomes. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students
and researchers of development economics, the history of economic
thought and economic history.
This book examines and classifies different reactions to the
COVID-19 pandemic from economists across the world. With the
impacts of the pandemic experienced differently in each country,
specific case studies are provided to highlight how the economics
profession has responded to the challenges that have emerged from
COVID-19. Key debates, such as the trade-off between health
protective measures and the economic impacts of closing important
sectors, are discussed, with a focus on the responses in China, the
USA, Italy, France, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, India, and
Palestine. This book explores the ability of economists to respond
to economic and social crises, and provides insight into the ties
between economic theory and economic policy in the modern world. It
will be relevant to students and researchers interested in how
economists have responded to the COVID-19 and what changes it might
trigger.
This edited volume examines the relationship between economic
ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing
the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and
Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light
on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth
of these countries and examines the origins of national and
regional approaches to development. The chapters present a
fascinating insight into the ideas and visions in the different
locations, with the overarching categories of economic nationalism
and economic liberalism and how they have influenced development
outcomes. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students
and researchers of development economics, the history of economic
thought and economic history.
This edited volume opening the new series Revisiting Communism:
Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective focuses on
the concepts of ownership, the cornerstone of political economy in
Soviet-type societies. The authors' main objective is to contribute
to the still unwritten chapter on collectivism in the history books
of modern economic thought. They trace the lengthy evolution of
economic ideas of property reform under communism leading from the
doctrine of blanket nationalization to projects of moderate
privatization in eight countries of Eastern Europe and China. The
comparative analysis sheds light upon the tireless attempts of
reform-minded economists in communist countries to populate the no
man's land of "social property" with quasi-private economic actors
such as bodies of workers' self-management and managers of
state-owned companies. For a long time, these were expected to
crowd out the communist nomenklatura from its actual ownership
position without challenging the primacy of collective property
rights. The fact that even the most radical reformers came to the
conclusion that such surrogate owners would not be able to break
the power of the ruling elite only on the eve of the 1989
revolutions demonstrates the immense strength of collectivist
ideas. The authors coin the term "trap of collectivism" to warn
those demanding nationalization or other forms of non-private
ownership today: it is rather easy, even with the best intentions,
to walk into this trap but it may take long decades to break out
from it.
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