Scarcity, conflicts, and cooperation : essays in the political and institutional economics of development

"If world poverty were simply an economic problem, we would be closer to a solution by now. But underdevelopment is a web of economic, political, institutional, ethnic, and class-related connections with persistent historical roots. In this simultaneously broad and sharp book, Pranab Bardhan tries to bring some analytical order into this important arena, and anyone who wants to understand the problem and the possibilities of policy will profit from reading it."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987) "William Easterly knows his way not only around economics but also around the developing world. He has written a hard-nosed book about the hardest problem of all: how to get the poorest countries on a path of sustained growth."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987) "I remember a cartoon in which a personnel manager says to a prospective employee: 'We offer no security. But then we expect no loyalty.' The authors think that this is more sad than funny. They ask important questions about how the labor market could make room for both security and loyalty for today's mobile workers and fast-changing firms. And they offer innovative answers."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987) Ler mais...