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How rich countries got rich and why poor countries stay poor / Erik S. Reinert.

By: Publication details: London : Constable, 2007.Description: xxix, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781845298746
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9009 22
Contents:
1. Discovering types of economic theories - 2. The evolution of the two different approaches - 3. Emulation : how rich countries got rich - 4. Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against - 5. Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer - 6. Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history - 7. Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea - 8. 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries - App. I. David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage in international trade - App. II. Two different ways of understanding the economic world and the wealth and poverty of nations - App. III. Frank Graham's theory of uneven development - App. IV. Two ideal types of protectionism compared - App. V. Philipp von Hornigk's nine points on how to emulate the rich countries (1684) - App. VI. The quality index of economic activities - Notes - Bibliographical - Index.
Summary: A book aimed at a politically aware and progressively minded readership, How Rich Countries Got Rich... will bury economic orthodoxy once and for all and open up the debate on why free trade is not the best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.
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BOOKs . Circulation Counter 338.9009 REI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available Recommended by Dr. Swati Narayan 40559

Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-356) and index.

1. Discovering types of economic theories -
2. The evolution of the two different approaches -
3. Emulation : how rich countries got rich -
4. Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against -
5. Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer -
6. Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history -
7. Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea -
8. 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries -
App. I. David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage in international trade -
App. II. Two different ways of understanding the economic world and the wealth and poverty of nations -
App. III. Frank Graham's theory of uneven development -
App. IV. Two ideal types of protectionism compared -
App. V. Philipp von Hornigk's nine points on how to emulate the rich countries (1684) -
App. VI. The quality index of economic activities -
Notes -
Bibliographical -
Index.

A book aimed at a politically aware and progressively minded readership, How Rich Countries Got Rich... will bury economic orthodoxy once and for all and open up the debate on why free trade is not the best answer for our hopes of worldwide prosperity.