This three-volume set collects previously published articles in the field of development economics, covering alternative approaches and going beyond the boundaries of economics narrowly defined. Some of the included papers are classic contributions, some are authoritative survey articles and others are more recent contributions. The collection covers topics such as: underdevelopment, growth and income distribution; resources in development; sectoral issues; open economy issues; and economic policies and institutions. The final section offers appraisals of the present state and future evolution of development economics.
This three-volume set collects previously published articles in the field of development economics, covering alternative approaches and going beyond the boundaries of economics narrowly defined. Some of the included papers are classic contributions, some are authoritative survey articles and others are more recent contributions. The collection covers topics such as: underdevelopment, growth and income distribution; resources in development; sectoral issues; open economy issues; and economic policies and institutions. The final section offers appraisals of the present state and future evolution of development economics.
Contents:
Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction Amitava Krishna Dutt
PART I INTRODUCTION
A Empirics of Development
1. Hollis B. Chenery and Lance Taylor (1968), ‘Development
Patterns: Among Countries and Over Time’
2. Jonathan Temple (1999), ‘The New Growth Evidence’
3. Charles I. Jones (1997), ‘On the Evolution of the World Income
Distribution’
B Development in Historical Perspective
4. Andre Gunder Frank (1966), ‘The Development of
Underdevelopment’
5. Alexander Gerschenkron (1952/1962), ‘Economic Backwardness in
Historical Perspective’
6. W.W. Rostow (1956), ‘The Take-Off Into Self-Sustained
Growth’
PART II UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
A Low-Level Traps and the Big Push
7. P.N. Rosenstein-Rodan (1943), ‘Problems of Industrialisation of
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe’
8. Ragnar Nurkse (1952/1955), ‘The Size of the Market and the
Inducement to Invest’ and ‘Population and Capital Supply’
9. Tibor Scitovsky (1954), ‘Two Concepts of External Economies’
10. Albert O. Hirschman (1958/1988), ‘Balanced Growth: A Critique’
and ‘Unbalanced Growth: An Espousal’
11. Kevin M. Murphy, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1989),
‘Industrialization and the Big Push’
B Theories of Growth
12. W. Arthur Lewis (1972), ‘Reflections on Unlimited Labor’
13. Michal Kalecki (1963/1993), ‘Problems of Financing Economic
Development in a Mixed Economy’
14. P.C. Mahalanobis (1953), ‘Some Observations on the Process of
Growth of National Income’
15. Stephen A. Marglin (1984), ‘Growth, Distribution, and
Inflation: A Centennial Synthesis’
16. Amitava Krishna Dutt (1984), ‘Stagnation, Income Distribution
and Monopoly Power’
17. Howard Pack (1994), ‘Endogenous Growth Theory: Intellectual
Appeal and Empirical Shortcomings’
18. Ronald I. McKinnon (1964), ‘Foreign Exchange Constraints in
Economic Development and Efficient Aid Allocation’
19. Jaime Ros (1994), ‘Foreign Exchange and Fiscal Constraints on
Growth: A Reconsideration of Structuralist and Macroeconomic
Approaches’
C Poverty, Inequality and Development
20. Montek S. Ahluwalia (1976), ‘Inequality, Poverty, and
Development’
21. Frances Stewart and Paul Streeten (1976), ‘New Strategies for
Development: Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth’
22. Amartya Sen (1981), ‘Ingredients of Famine Analysis:
Availability and Entitlements’
23. Partha Dasgupta and Debraj Ray (1986), ‘Inequality as a
Determinant of Malnutrition and Unemployment: Theory’
24. Abhijit V. Banerjee and Andrew F. Newman (1994), ‘Poverty,
Incentives and Development’
Name Index
Volume II:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in
volume I
PART I RESOURCES IN DEVELOPMENT
A Labor and Human Resources
1. Partha Dasgupta (1995), ‘The Population Problem: Theory and
Evidence’
2. Nancy Birdsall, David Ross and Richard Sabot (1997), ‘Education,
Growth and Inequality’
3. Jagdish Bhagwati (1973), ‘Education, Class Structure and Income
Equality’
4. John R. Harris and Michael P. Todaro (1970), ‘Migration,
Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis’
5. Diane Elson (1995), ‘Male Bias in Macro-Economics: The Case of
Structural Adjustment’
6. Kaushik Basu and Pham Hoang Van (1998), ‘The Economics of Child
Labor’
B Capital Accumulation
7. Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Luis Servén and Andrés Solimano (1996),
‘Saving, Investment, and Growth in Developing Countries: An
Overview’
8. John G. Gurley and E.S. Shaw (1967), ‘Financial Structure and
Economic Development’
9. Sweder van Wijnbergen (1983), ‘Credit Policy, Inflation and
Growth in a Financially Repressed Economy’
10. Timothy Besley (1995), ‘Nonmarket Institutions for Credit and
Risk Sharing in Low-Income Countries’
11. Carlos Diaz-Alejandro (1985), ‘Good-Bye Financial Repression,
Hello Financial Crash’
C The Environment
12. Thomas Reardon and Stephen A. Vosti (1995), ‘Links Between
Rural Poverty and the Environment in Developing Countries: Asset
Categories and Investment Poverty’
13. Irma Adelman, Habib Fetini and Elise Hardy Golan (1997),
‘Development Strategies and the Environment’
PART II SECTORAL ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT
A Agriculture
14. Amartya K. Sen (1966), ‘Peasants and Dualism With or Without
Surplus Labor’
15. P.K. Bardhan and T.N. Srinivasan (1971), ‘Cropsharing Tenancy
in Agriculture: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis’
16. Amit Bhaduri (1973), ‘A Study in Agricultural Backwardness
Under Semi-Feudalism’
17. J. Mohan Rao (1986), ‘Agriculture in Recent Development
Theory’
18. Joseph E. Stiglitz (1986), ‘The New Development Economics’
19. Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet (1989), ‘A Study in
Resistance to Institutional Change: The Lost Game of Latin American
Land Reform’
B Industry
20. Nicholas Kaldor (1966/1989), ‘Causes of the Slow Rate of
Economic Growth in the United Kingdom’
21. Harvey Leibenstein (1977), ‘X-Efficiency Theory, Conventional
Entrepreneurship, and Excess Capacity Creation in LDCs’
22. Frances Stewart (1974), ‘Technology and Employment in LDCs’
23. Martin Bell and Keith Pavitt (1993), ‘Accumulating
Technological Capability in Developing Countries’
24. Dipak Mazumdar (1976), ‘The Urban Informal Sector’
Name Index
Volume III:
Acknowledgements
An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in
volume I
PART I OPEN ECONOMY ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT
A Trade
1. Raúl Prebisch (1959), ‘Commercial Policy in the Underdeveloped
Countries’
2. Graciela Chichilnisky (1981), ‘Terms of Trade and Domestic
Distribution: Export-Led Growth with Abundant Labour’
3. Anne O. Krueger (1980), ‘Trade Policy as an Input to
Development’
4. Gershon Feder (1982), ‘On Exports and Economic Growth’
5. Sebastian Edwards (1993), ‘Openness, Trade Liberalization, and
Growth in Developing Countries’
B International Factor Movements
6. Sanjaya Lall (1978), ‘Transnationals, Domestic Enterprises, and
Industrial Structure in Host LDCs: A Survey’
7. Thomas E. Weisskopf (1972), ‘The Impact of Foreign Capital
Inflow on Domestic Savings in Underdeveloped Countries’
8. Jagdish N. Bhagwati (1979), ‘International Factor Movements and
National Advantage’
C North-South Issues
9. H.W. Singer (1950), ‘The Distribution of Gains between Investing
and Borrowing Countries’
10. Gunnar Myrdal (1957), ‘The Drift towards Regional Economic
Inequalities in a Country’ and ‘ International Inequalities’
11. Theotonio Dos Santos (1970), ‘The Structure of Dependence’
12. Ronald Findlay (1980), ‘The Terms of Trade and Equilibrium
Growth in the World Economy’
13. Paul Krugman (1981), ‘Trade, Accumulation, and Uneven
Development’
14. John Spraos (1980), ‘The Statistical Debate on the Net Barter
Terms of Trade Between Primary Commodities and Manufactures’
PART II ECONOMIC POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
A Inflation and Stabilization
15. Osvaldo Sunkel (1960), ‘Inflation in Chile: An Unorthodox
Approach’
16. Dudley Seers (1962), ‘A Theory of Inflation and Growth in
Under-Developed Economies Based on the Experience of Latin
America’
17. Lance Taylor (1987), ‘Macro Policy in the Tropics: How Sensible
People Stand’
B The State, Markets and Development
18. Tony Killick (1976), ‘The Possibilities of Development
Planning’
19. Helen Shapiro and Lance Taylor (1990), ‘The State and
Industrial Strategy’
20. Alice H. Amsden (1991), ‘Diffusion of Development: The
Late-Industrializing Model and Greater East Asia’
21. Michael Lipton (1993), ‘Urban Bias: Of Consequences, Classes
and Causality’
22. Peter B. Evans (1989), ‘Predatory, Developmental, and Other
Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the
Third World State’
23. Avner Greif (1997), ‘Contracting, Enforcement, and Efficiency:
Economics Beyond the Law’
24. Pranab Bardhan (1997), ‘Corruption and Development: A Review of
Issues’
PART III CONCLUSION
25. Albert O. Hirschman (1981), ‘The Rise and Decline of
Development Economics’
26. Amartya Sen (1983), ‘Development: Which Way Now?’
27. Pranab Bardhan (1993), ‘Economics of Development and the
Development of Economics’
Name Index
Edited by Amitava Krishna Dutt, Professor, Department of Economics and Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame, US
'This collection of readings makes a great contribution to our
appreciation of development economics. . .'
*Desmond McNeill, The European Journal of Development Research*
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