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Shortcut or piecemeal : economic development strategies and structural change / Jan Winiecki.
LIBRA HD87.5 .W56 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winiecki, Jan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Central planning--History.
- Economic development--History.
- Economic development.
- History.
- Central planning.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest : Central European University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In Shortcut or Piecemeal, Jan Winiecki, one of the top liberal economists in Europe, presents a penetrating, empirically based analysis of the statist systems and strategies. He unmasks their theoretical and philosophical fallacies and explains why they have failed economically, while also describing the successes of free-market systems. The book is both very erudite and clearly written. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Centrally planned and administered economy and steep ascent strategy a complete failure
- Development economics-based strategy in less developed countries an incomplete failure
- A shift toward better understood (and appreciated) classical economic prescriptions an incomplete success
- Industrialization : the first major phase of structural transformation
- The shift to human capital-intensive market services : the second major phase of structural transformation
- Russia and China : some historical as well as performance similarities (up to a point...)
- India and Brazil : two perennial "great potentials".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789633860632
- 9633860636
- 9789633860625
- 9633860628
- OCLC:
- 945752219
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