Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach
José Antonio Ocampo, Codrina Rada, and Lance Taylor
October, 2009
Cloth, 200 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 35 line drawings, 5 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15014-9
$29.50
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"This analysis, diagnosis, and prescription, embedded in the structuralist tradition of economic thought, is refreshingly different." — Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the New School University, New York
"Growth and Policy in Developing Countries fills a gap in the existing literature on development economics and growth theory. The volume makes an original contribution from an unorthodox perspective." — Nora Lustig, George Washington University
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José Antonio Ocampo is professor and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He has enjoyed a long career of public service in his own country, Colombia, and the United Nations. He has published extensively on macroeconomics, development economics, and economic history. His most recent book is Capital Market Liberalization, edited with Joseph E. Stiglitz.Codrinda Rada is assistant professor of economics at the University of Utah and a former economic affairs officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Her paper "Stagnation or Transformation of a Dual Economy Through Endogenous Productivity Growth?" is used as a basic tool of analysis in this book.Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School University. He has taught at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota, and the Stockholm School of Economics. He has written extensively on structuralist macroeconomics, including his textbook Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream.
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