Frontiers of Development Economics The Future in Perspective,9780195215922

Frontiers of Development Economics The Future in Perspective

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ISBN13: 9780195215922
ISBN10: 0195215923
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-04-01
Publisher(s): World Bank Publications
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Summary

Edited by Vice President of the World Bank and Gerald Meier, author of several very successful Oxford titles, Frontiers in Development, offers cutting edge thinking from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Nicholas Stern
Preface ix
Gerald M. Meier
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Introduction: Ideas for Development 1(12)
Gerald M. Meier
The Old Generation of Development Economists and the New
13(48)
Gerald M. Meier
Comment
51(7)
Philippe Aghion
Comment
58(3)
Hla Myint
On the Goals of Development
61(42)
Kaushik Basu
Comment
87(7)
Paul P. Streeten
Comment
94(9)
Michael Lipton
Fallacies in Development Theory and Their Implications for Policy
103(46)
Irma Adelman
Comment
135(12)
David Vines
Comment
147(2)
Sir Hans Singer
Revisiting the Challenge of Development
149(34)
Vinod Thomas
The Evolution of Thinking about Poverty: Exploring the Interactions
183(44)
Ravi Kanbur
Lyn Squire
Development Issues: Settled and Open
227(42)
Shahid Yusuf
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Distributive Conflicts, Collective Action, and Institutional Economics
269(32)
Pranab Bardhan
Comment
291(5)
Irma Adelman
Comment
296(5)
Paul Collier
Historical Perspectives on Development
301(44)
Nicholas Crafts
Comment
335(5)
Avner Greif
Comment
340(5)
David Landes
In Quest of the Political: The Political Economy of Development Policymaking
345(44)
Merilee S. Grindle
Comment
381(3)
Gustav Ranis
Comment
384(5)
Timothy Besley
Modern Economic Theory and Development
389(174)
Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Comment
460(4)
Gustav Ranis
Comment
464(14)
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Comment
478(9)
Debraj Ray
Appendixes
Reflections by Nobel Prize Laureates
487(28)
A Research Agenda
489(2)
Lawrence R. Klein
Needed: A Theory of Change
491(1)
Douglass C. North
Sparks and Grit from the Anvil of Growth
492(14)
Paul A. Samuelson
What Is Development About?
506(8)
Amartya K. Sen
Candidate Issues in Development Economics
514(1)
Robert M. Solow
Reflections by Pioneers
515(48)
``Pioneers Revisited''
517(3)
Sir Hans Singer
International Trade and the Domestic Institutional Framework
520(9)
Hla Myint
The Economics of a Stagnant Population
529(12)
W. W. Rostow
The View from the Trenches: Development Processes and Policies as Seen by a Working Professional
541(22)
Arnold C. Harberger
Contributors and Commentators 563(2)
Index 565

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