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

By:

Reinert, Erik S, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Anthem Press India, 2008.Description: xxix, 365 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781843313335 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

338.9 REI 23 003319

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Table of Contents.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	338.9 REI 003319 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003319

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.

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