This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...

The Limits of Neo-liberal Development Strategies -- Keynes, Working Hours and the Environment -- Rational Expectations: Its Background and Initial Applications in Macroeconomics -- Uncertain R&D Outcomes and Cooperation in R&D -- Simultaneous Estimation of Median Incomes of the American States:...

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the...