The wealth of nations in the twentieth century : the policies and institutional determinants of economic development / edited by Ramon H. Myers
- Bib ID:
- 2132
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1996
- xxi, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0817994513 (alkaline paper)
- 0817994521 (alkaline paper) (paper)
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 437.
- Summary:
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This collection of essays, based on a conference at the Hoover Institution, compares the governmental policies and institutional determinants of economic development for sixteen countries within the context of Western economic development and national trends in the world economy. The study also includes an essay by Amartya Sen that examines the meaning of wealth and its different measurements.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Ramon H. Myers
- 1. The Concept of Wealth / Amartya Sen
- 2. Growth Acceleration and Slowdown: Postwar Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective / Angus Maddison
- 3. Economic Development in Historical Perspective: The Western World / Douglass C. North
- 4. Bridled Capitalism and the Economic Development of Japan, 1880-1980 / Kozo Yamamura
- 5. Decelerating Growth under Socialism: The Soviet Case / Gur Ofer
- 6. Diverging and Converging Patterns of Wealth Creation: The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China / Ramon H. Myers
- 7. Material Progress in Korea since Partition / Nicholas Eberstadt
- 8. Economic Policies and Performance of India and Pakistan / Alan Heston
- 9. Brazilian and Colombian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century / Albert Fishlow
- 10. Growth and Equity in Nigeria and Indonesia / David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning.
- 11. Perspectives on the Economic Experience of Two Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana and Malawi from the 1960s to the 1980s / Jan Hogendorn and Robert Christiansen
- 12. Egypt and Syria under Socialism: A Forty-Year Perspective / Victor Lavy
- Conclusion /Ramon H. Myers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Myers, Ramon H., 1929-
- Copyright:
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