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The new institutional economics and Third World development

Author: John Harriss; Janet Hunter; Colin M Lewis
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume addresses the significance of institutional economics for the developing world. It blends together theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplines - notably development studies, economics and economic history. The work begins with an overview of the origins and scope of the new institutional economics. Subsequent chapters extend this, providing critical commentaries and a theory which  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Harriss; Janet Hunter; Colin M Lewis
ISBN: 0415118239 9780415118231 0415157919 9780415157919
OCLC Number: 31971841
Description: xiii, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction: Development and Significance of NIE / John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis ----
Part I: Nie: History, Politics and Development. 2. The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development / Douglass C. North ---
3. Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An Assessment of the New Institutionalism / Robert H. Bates ---
4. The New Institutional Economics and Its Implications for Development Theory / John Toye ----
Part II: Nie: Theory and Policy. 5. State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations / Mushtaq Khan ---
6. Maps and Landscapes of Grain Markets in South Asia / Barbara Harriss-White ---
7. Institutional Theories and Structural Adjustment in Africa / Howard Stein ---
8. The Role of the State: The Case of Egypt / Heba Handoussa ----
Part III: Nie: Institutions and Organisations. 9. Cocoa Plantations in the Third World, 1870s-1914: The Political Economy of Inefficiency / W. G. Clarence-smith ---
10. Productivity and Power: Institutional Structures and Agricultural Performance in India and China, 1900-50 / B. R. Tomlinson ---
11. State Intervention in the Brazilian Coffee Trade During the 1920s: A Case Study for New Institutional Economics? / Robert G. Greenhill ---
12. Institutional Theory and Social Change in Uganda / E. A. Brett ----
Part IV: Nie: Institutions, Organisations and the State. 13. The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis / Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Francisco Ferreira ---
14. The Politics of Money in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Argentina / Jeremy Adelman ---
15. Political Factors Shaping the Role of Foreign Finance: The Case of Greece, 1832-1932 / Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou ---
16. Regulatory Regimes, Capital Markets And Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico and the United States of America, 1840-1930 / Stephen Haber ---
17. The State and the Economy in Indonesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Anne Booth ---
18. Explaining the Economic and Political Successes of Rawlings: The Strengths and Limitations of Public Choice Theories / E. Gyimah-Boadi.
Responsibility: edited by John Harriss, Janet Hunter, and Colin M. Lewis.
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This volume addresses the significance of institutional economics for the developing world. It blends together theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplines - notably development studies, economics and economic history. The work begins with an overview of the origins and scope of the new institutional economics. Subsequent chapters extend this, providing critical commentaries and a theory which has challenged the orthodoxies about development, especially concerning the role of markets. The remaining chapters deal with theoretical issues and with institutions, markets and the state in a wide range of geographical and historical contexts.

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