This collection of twelve essays is based on the premise that a better understanding of the economic development process can be gained by studying the history of those countries that have experienced long-term economic success, in this case the United States during the nineteenth century - that...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I History -- 1 The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Developments: Toward a Political Economy of Implementation -- 2 The Institutional Origins of the Industrial Revolution -- 3 Institutions and the Resource Curse in...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1. The Agenda for Growth Theory: A Different Point of View -- CHAPTER 2. The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory -- PART II -- CHAPTER 3. Recent Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change -- CHAPTER 4. On the Nature and Evolution...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Main Symbols -- Part I. From the Short Run to the Long -- 1 Introduction: Toward a Classical Growth Model -- 2 The Nature of the Long Run -- Part II. Long-run Models of Fiscal Policy -- 3 A Two-Class Model -- 4 Saving and...

Why did it take China more than a century after its defeat in the first Opium War to begin systematically acquiring the fruits of modern technology? To what extent did the rapid economic developments after 1949 depend on features unique to China and to Chinese history as well as on the socialist...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Soviet Development in World-Historical Perspective -- PART ONE The Economy before Stalin -- CHAPTER TWO Economic Growth before 1917 -- CHAPTER THREE The Development Problem in the 1920s -- CHAPTER FOUR...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 Innovation in an Historical Perspective: Tales of Technology and Evolution -- Part II COUNTRY STUDIES -- 3 The United States -- 4 Japan -- 5 Germany -- 6 France -- 7...

As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today. Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds of...

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be...

This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality, at...