Embedded autonomy : states and industrial transformation / Peter Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Peter B., 1944-

Series:

Princeton paperbacks.

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer industry--Government policy--Brazil.

Computer industry.

Computer industry--Government policy--India.

Computer industry--Government policy--Korea (South).

Industrial policy--Brazil.

Industrial policy.

Industrial policy--India.

Industrial policy--Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

Contents:

States and Industrial Transformation

A Comparative Institutional Approach

States

Roles and Sectors

Promotion and Policing

State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry

The Rise of Local Firms

The New Internationalization

Lessons from Informatics

Rethinking Embedded Autonomy.

Notes:

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-310) and index.

ISBN:

9786612738333

9781400815791

1400815797

9781400802104

1400802105

9781400821723

140082172X

9781282738331

128273833X

9781400811533

1400811538

OCLC:

700687899