The new development economics : after the Washington Consensus

This volume provides an original and thought-provoking critique of the post-Washington Concensus in neoliberal economics. Aimed at academics and postgraduates, and policy-makers, in development economics, the text clearly presents current trends in theory and policy within mainstream development eco...

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Other Authors: Jomo K. S., Fine, Ben.
Language:English
Published: New Delhi London: Tulika Books ;: Zed Books, 2006..
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Online Access:https://books.google.com/books?id=8ym5AAAAIAAJ
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction:
  • The economics of development and the development of economics ;
  • The new development economics /
  • Ben Fine
  • From Washington to post-Washington consensus: illusions of development /
  • Elisa Van Waeyenberge
  • Kicking away the logic: free trade is neither the question nor the answer for development /
  • Sonali Deraniyagala, Ben Fine
  • New growth theory: more problem than solution ;
  • Financial programming and the IMF ;
  • The developmental state and the political economy of development /
  • Ben Fine
  • Analysis of technology and development: a critical review /
  • Sonali Deraniyagala
  • Privatization theory and practice: a critical analysis of policy evolution in the development context /
  • Kate Bayliss
  • From Washington to post-Washington consensus: the triumph of human capital /
  • John Harriss
  • Corruption and governance /
  • Mushtaq Husain Khan
  • Agriculture and development: towards a critique of the 'new neoclassical development economics' and of 'neoclassical neo-populism' /
  • Terrence J. Byres
  • Development and geography: current debates in historical perspective /
  • Hugh Goodacre
  • Pioneers of economic history /
  • Dimitris Milonakis.