This book is about mutual influences of thinking about economic development in China and in the West, from the 18th century until the present. Its chapters are contributed by development economists and historians of thought from China and other parts of the world. The book describes important...

Introduction / Mario GARCIA-MOLINA and Hans-Michael TRAUTWEIN -- Core and periphery -- Core and periphery in the early cold war : a historical analysis of development theory / Natália BRACARENSE -- Anarchic accumulation, un-effective demand and institutional constraints : Oskar Lange's critique...

The origins of "capital fundamentalism' - the notion that physical capital accumulation is the primary determinant of economic growth - have been often ascribed to H arrod's and Domar's proposition that the rate of growth is the product of the saving rate and of the output-capital ratio. I t is...