System -- Development

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Decentralization and Popular Democracy

Governance from Below in Bolivia

By Jean-Paul Faguet
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development, Latin American Studies

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level

Carrots, Sticks, and Ethnic Conflict

Rethinking Development Assistance

Edited by Milton J. Esman & Ronald J. Herring
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology

Investigates whether international development assistance helps or aggravates ethnic strife

Changing Paths

International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

2nd Edition

Edited by Peter P. Houtzager & Michael Peter Moore
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth

Socialism After Hayek

By Theodore A. Burczak
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Philosophy, System -- Development
Series: Advances in Heterodox Economics

Develops an ethical and economically feasible model of socialism, based on a novel synthesis of Hayekian market process theory, Marxian class theory, and an Aristotelian theory of justice

Rethinking Sustainability

Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Edited by Jonathan Mark Harris
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Provides important guideposts toward a more complete theory of sustainable human and economic development

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

By W. Brian Arthur
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Micro Economics
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.

A Civil Economy

Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

By Severyn T. Bruyn
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

An accessible overview of the concept of the civil economy and how it works

Helping People Help Themselves

From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance

By David Ellerman
Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Presents the argument that development is a transformative process that cannot be imposed from the outside

Fragments of Development

Nation, Gender, and the Space of Modernity

By Suzanne Bergeron
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Sociology

Offers an account of the construction of the national economy as an object of development policy

Integrity and Agreement

Economics When Principles Also Matter

By Alanson Minkler
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Moral principle---not mere self-interest---drives rational decision making

The Street Porter and the Philosopher

Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism

By Sandra Peart & David M. Levy
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, System -- Development, Philosophy, History, Intellectual History

Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings

Changing Paths

International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion

Edited by Peter P. Houtzager & Michael Peter Moore
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics

Explores how the world's disadvantaged may be enabled to claim a greater share of material wealth

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town

By Elisha Renne
Subjects: Anthropology, African Studies, Gender Studies, Economics, System -- Development

Argues that progress and fertility cannot be expected to follow a universal trajectory

Protest and the Politics of Blame

The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages

By Debra Lynn Javeline
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia

International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times

The Need for New International Architecture

Edited by Stephany Griffith-Jones, Ricardo Gottschalk, and Jacques Cailloux
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Macro Economics
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

Provides a much-needed look at the role of international capital flows in recent financial crises

Democracy, Governance, and Growth

Edited by Stephen Knack
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Law
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Demonstrates the importance of governance and social institutions to economic performance

Reinventing the State

Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru

By Carol Wise
Subjects: Economics, International Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Latin American Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

The first comprehensive political economic overview of Peru in over two decades

From Liberty to Democracy

The Transformation of American Government

By Randall G. Holcombe
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, History of Economic Thought, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An analysis of American political history using the economic framework of public choice theory

Harvesting Development

The Construction of Fresh Food Markets in Papua New Guinea

By Karl Benediktsson
Subjects: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, System -- Development

An examination of the global-local tension evident in much work on development issues through the example of fresh food markets in Papua New Guinea

Managing "Modernity"

Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia

By Rudra Sil
Subjects: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Economics, System -- Development
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics

Compares industrial management in two late-industrializers—Japan and Russia—as a basis for an original theory of institution-building

Economic Reforms in Chile

From Dictatorship to Democracy

By Ricardo Ffrench-Davis
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

An analysis of the neoliberal reform in Chile during the last thirty years

The Evolution of Agrarian Institutions

A Comparative Study of Post-Socialist Hungary and Bulgaria

By Mieke E. Meurs
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies

An examination of why private farming in the transition economies of East-Central Europe has not grown as quickly as expected

Out of the Red

Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe

By Mitchell Alexander Orenstein
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, European Studies, Eastern European Studies
Series: Development and Inequality in the Market Economy

A comprehensive parallel study of two critical East-Central European transition economies

Defusing Democracy

Central Bank Autonomy and the Transition from Authoritarian Rule

By Delia Margaret Boylan
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Economics, System -- Development, Latin American Studies

A substantive focus on transitions to democracy combined with an analytical approach rooted in the political economy of institutions

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