Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy) - Hardcover

Coyne, Christopher J.; Leeson, Peter T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847204783 ISBN 13: 9781847204783

Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development.

The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects a country's ability to prosper. The authors identify specific media-related policies governments of underdeveloped countries should adopt if they want to grow. They illustrate why media freedom is a critical ingredient in the recipe of economic development and why even the best-intentioned state involvement in media is more likely to slow prosperity than to enhance it.

Scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology; policy-makers, analysts and others in the development community; and academics in media studies will find this book insightful and provocative.

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Christopher J. Coyne, Mercatus Center and Department of Economics and Peter T. Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, George Mason University, US

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847204783
• ISBN 13: 9781847204783
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 173
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