Ideas in the History of Economic Development: The Case of Peripheral Countries

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This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth of these countries and examines the origins of national and regional approaches to development. The chapters present a fascinating insight into the ideas and visions in the different locations, with the overarching categories of economic nationalism and economic liberalism and how they have influenced development outcomes. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of development economics, the history of economic thought and economic history. Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Introduction Part I: Europe 1 Degrees of abstraction in development economics 2 Debates on development in the Spanish economy, 1848–1960 3 Development economics in Portugal 4 Italian economists, paradigmatic revolutions and development issues in Italy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century 5 Soviet development model: a history of interpretations 6 Development issues in the economic thought of the European periphery: the case of Bulgaria from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century Part II: Asia 7 Chinese debates on economic development in the 1920s–1940s 8 ‘Old’ Chinese debates on economic development: not only Chinese, and not so old 9 Indian nationalism: Asian context, interwar years and Nehruvian state-building 10 Economic development and economics in Japan, 1870–1940 Part III: Latin America 11 From developmentalism to neoliberalism in Latin America 12 Redistribution, growth, structural change, and dollarization: understanding Ecuadorian perspectives 13 The politics of economic development: Latin America through the eyes of Albert O. Hirschman 14 An alternative demand-led, structuralist interpretation of the economic ‘golden era’ in Argentina (1870–1930) 15 The rise and fall of economic development preoccupations in Argentina and the turn toward neoliberalism in the 1970s 16 The place of institutions in Latin American development: from Prebisch to dependency theory and beyond Index