دانلود کتاب A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development (Elgar Modern Guides)

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Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: uneven development – addressing causes versus treating symptoms
PART I Nature-made versus policy-made sources of uneven development
1. Uneven economic development: identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics
2. Geography, uneven development and population density: attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development
3. Redirecting growth: inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led
PART II Assumptions, abstractions and approaches to uneven development
4. Altered states: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams
5. Gender and uneven development
6. Dependency theory: strengths, weaknesses, and its relevance today
7. The need to centre imperialism in studies of uneven development
8. Imperialism: a note on the unequal treaties of modern China and Japan
PART III Understanding mechanisms that create and prevent inequality
9. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment?
10. Technological retrogression and persistent poverty
PART IV When nations and systems decline and collapse
11. When nations collapse: a note on Jacob Bielfeld’s ‘On the Decline of States’ (1760)
12. Free trade with the former COMECON countries as unequal exchange
13. Escaping the poverty trap in China: the co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development
14. Recent experiences of successful economic policies: the case of Uzbekistan
PART V Finance versus the real economy
15. Uneven development, financialised capitalism and subordination
16. Unequal growth and the single currency: the fiscal policy paradox
PART VI Ecology
17. Identifying ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system: implications for development
Conclusion: what are the important lessons from history?
Index