A modern guide to uneven economic development / edited by Erik S. Reinert (Honorary Professor, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), University College London, UK and Adjunct Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies, TalTech, Estonia) and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (Lecturer, Department of International Development, King's College London, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reinert, Erik S., editor.

Kvangraven, Ingrid H., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar modern guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. Advancing experience-based theories in the debate of economic development, this Modern Guide provides a qualitative, holistic and nuanced understanding of economic inequality by uniquely combining explanations from a large number of academic fields. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender and geography, and considers the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors. By looking at falling real wages, world income distribution, and refugees and migrants in poorer regions, it ultimately explains why wealth and poverty are so unevenly distributed globally. The cutting-edge discussions in this Modern Guide will prove invaluable for students and scholars from a range of disciplines including economics and development studies. In today's world of 'single-issue management', the alternative theories of mutual influence in this book will prove useful to policy makers working across a variety of economic fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: Uneven development - addressing causes versus treating symptoms / Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Part I. Nature-made versus policy-made sources of uneven development

1. Uneven economic development: Identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics / Erik S. Reinert

2. Geography, uneven development and population density: Attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development / Erik S. Reinert, Salah Chafik and Xuan Zhao

3. Redirecting growth: Inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led / Mariana Mazzucato and Carlota Perez

Part II. Assumptions, abstractions and approaches to uneven development

4. Altered states: Cartesian and ricardian dreams / Erik S. Reinert, Monica Di Fiore, Andrea Saltelli and Jerome R. Ravetz

5. Gender and uneven development / Lyn Ossome

6. Dependency theory: Strengths, weaknesses, and its relevance today / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

7. The need to centre imperialism in studies of uneven development / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

8. Imperialism: A note on the unequal treaties of modern China and Japan / Xuan Zhao

Part III. Understanding mechanisms that create and prevent inequality

9. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong enlightenment? / Andrea Saltelli and Erik S. Reinert

10. Technological retrogression and persistent poverty / Sylvi B. Endresen

Part IV. When nations and systems decline and collapse

11. When nations collapse: A note on jacob bielfeld's 'on the decline of states' (1760) / Erik S. Reinert

12. Free trade with the former comecon countries as unequal exchange / Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Andrea Saltelli, Magdalena Olczyk and Erik S. Reinert

13. Escaping the poverty trap in China: The co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development / Ting Xu

14. Recent experiences of successful economic policies: The case of uzbekistan / Vladimir Popov

Part V. Finance versus the real economy

15. Uneven development, financialised capitalism and subordination / Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Jeff Powell

16. Unequal growth and the single currency: The fiscal policy paradox / Jan Kregel

Part VI. Ecology

17. Identifying ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system: Implications for development / Alf Hornborg

Conclusion: What are the important lessons from history? / Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781788976541 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.