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： Globalisation, development and transition :
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| ISBN： | 9781845428501 (hardcover) |
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| 编目源： | DLC DLC DLC CtY |
| 个人名称： | Snowdon, Brian. |
| 题名： | Globalisation, development and transition : conversations with eminent economists / Brian Snowdon. |
| 索书号： | F11/S674E |
| 出版发行项： | Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, c2007. |
| 载体形态： | xviii, 537 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 书目附注： | Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-521) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注： | The fall and rise of globalisation -- Introduction -- Globalisation v 'globaphobia' -- The gains from trade and good governance -- When did globalisation begin? -- The 'great reversal': international disintegration and recovery -- Financial globalisation -- The benefits and costs of financial liberation -- Exchange rate regimes and the 'open economy trilemma' -- The role of the International Monetary Fund -- Globalisation and the IMF: some lessons from the 1990s -- International labour migration -- The 'offshore outsourcing' controversy -- The size of nations -- Growth, productivity and international competitiveness -- Analysing global competitiveness -- The 'growth competitiveness index' -- The 'business competitiveness index' -- The 'global competitiveness index' -- Improving the competitiveness of developing countries -- Conclusion -- Economic development in historical perspective -- Introduction -- The 'great escape' -- Alternative measures of 'progress' -- Income measures -- Beyond income measures of progress: basic needs, the PQLI, and life Expectancy -- The human development index -- Competitiveness indices -- Measures of freedom -- Anthropometrics -- The economics of obesity -- The economics of happiness and life satisfaction -- The birth of development economics -- From the 'dirigist consensus' to the 'Washington consensus' and beyond -- Growth and development -- Growth, development and the role of institutions -- Economic history and institutions -- Bandits and kleptocrats -- Barriers to growth and development -- Sub-Saharan Africa's growth tragedy -- From Marshall plan to Millennium Development Goals -- 2005: a 'pivotal year' in the development debate? -- The foreign aid controversy -- Aid and poverty traps -- Foreign aid: a 'weapon of mass salvation' -- Conclusion -- The rise and fall of the 'socialist' system and the trials of transition -- Introduction -- The legacy of Marx -- The rise and fall of the 'socialist system' and the Soviet Union, 1917-91 -- From 'golden age' growth to slowdown -- Western perceptions of the socialist system -- Economic analysis under socialism -- From 'glasnost' and 'perestroika' to transition -- The political economy of transition -- A third way: is market socialism feasible? -- Alternative paths of transition: the shock therapy v gradualism debate -- The political economy of reform -- Conclusion. |