it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has failed. This book shows that the state is set to dominate service delivery for the foreseeable future in much of the region, and that the public sector must be considered as a viable policy option for the...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Diagrams -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface, Preliminaries and Acknowledgements -- 1. Macroeconomy versus Macroeconomics? -- 2. Accelerator-Multiplier: Stabbing the Knife-Edge in the Back? -- 3. Classical Dichotomies -- 4. Growth Theories: Old, New...

Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Beyond the Developmental State: An Introduction - Ben Fine -- 2. The Rise and Fall of the Developmental State? The Case of the Japanese and South Korean Steel Industries - Jajime Sato -- 3. An Alternative Perspective on Industrial Policy: The...

Developments within economics of incorporating the historical (and the social, institutional, etc more generally) have been welcomed as progress over excessive formalism and lack of realism. But, by situating these developments in terms of the shifting relationship between economics, the...

Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I: Preliminaries and Principles -- 1. The World Bank, Neo-Liberalism and Development Research (Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine and Kate Bayliss) -- 2. A Knowledge Bank? (Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Ben Fine) -- Part II: Research in...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Diagrams -- Preface, Preliminaries and Acknowledgements -- 1 Locating Microeconomics -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Microeconomics as History of Economic Thought -- 1.3 From Marginalist Revolution ... -- 1.4 ... Through Methodology...