Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and Institutional Economics of Development - Hardcover

Bardhan, Pranab

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262025736 ISBN 13: 9780262025737

Verlag: MIT Press, 2004

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"If world poverty were simply an economic problem, we would be closer to a solution by now. But underdevelopment is a web of economic, political, institutional, ethnic, and class-related connections with persistent historical roots. In this simultaneously broad and sharp book, Pranab Bardhan tries to bring some analytical order into this important arena, and anyone who wants to understand the problem and the possibilities of policy will profit from reading it."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987) "William Easterly knows his way not only around economics but also around the developing world. He has written a hard-nosed book about the hardest problem of all: how to get the poorest countries on a path of sustained growth."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987) "I remember a cartoon in which a personnel manager says to a prospective employee: 'We offer no security. But then we expect no loyalty.' The authors think that this is more sad than funny. They ask important questions about how the labor market could make room for both security and loyalty for today's mobile workers and fast-changing firms. And they offer innovative answers."--Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, and Nobel Laureate in Economics (1987)

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This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, Pranab Bardhan, a leader in the field of development economics, offers a relatively nontechnical discussion of current thinking on these issues from the viewpoint of poor countries, synthesizing recent research and reflecting on where we stand today. The institutional framework of an economy defines and constrains the opportunities of individuals, determines the business climate, and shapes the incentives and organizations for collective action on the part of communities; Pranab Bardhan finds the institutional framework to be relatively weak in many poor countries. Institutional failures, weak accountability mechanisms, and missed opportunities for cooperative problem-solving become the themes of the book, with the role of distributive conflicts in the persistence of dysfunctional institutions as a common thread. Special issues taken up include the institutions for securing property rights and resolving coordination failures; the structural basis of power; commitment devices and political accountability; the complex relationship between democracy and poverty (with examples from India, where both have been durable); decentralization and devolution of power; persistence of corruption; ethnic conflicts; and impediments to collective action. Formal models are largely avoided, except in two chapters where Bardhan briefly introduces new models to elucidate currently under-researched areas. Other chapters review existing models, emphasizing the essential ideas rather than the formal details. Thus the book will be valuable not only for economists but also for social scientists and policymakers.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0262025736
• ISBN 13: 9780262025737
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328