International Trade, Growth, and Development (eBook)

Pranab Bardhan (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
296 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-4200-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development. Covering a wide range of important issues within the field, these essays describe theoretical and empirical perspectives on economic agents both at the micro and macro levels of the economy in development. Introductions to each of the book's three sections place the articles in perspective and relate them to current research.

Autor

Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, and co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation- funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economics, has contributed numerous journal articles, and has written or edited 15 books, including The Role of Governance in Economic Development: A Political Economy Approach (1997), Development Microeconomics (with Christopher Udry, 2000), and the two-volume Readings in Development Microeconomics (with Christopher Udry, 2000).

Inhalt

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

PART I. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Credit Markets and Patterns of International
Trade.

Chapter 2. Localized Technical Progress and Transfer of
Technology and Economic Development.

Chapter 3. Quality Variations and the Choice between Foreign and
Indigenous Goods or Technology.

Chapter 4. Imports, Domestic Productions, and Transnational
Vertical Integration: A Theoretical Note.

Chapter 5. Disparity in Wages but not in Returns to Capital
Between Rich and Poor Countries.

Chapter 6. On Optimum Subsidy to a Lending Industry: An Aspect
of the Theory of Infant-Industry Protection.

PART II. VINTAGE CAPITAL GROWTH MODELS.

Introduction.

Chapter 7. International Trade Theory in a Vintage-Capital
Model.

Chapter 8. Dynamic Effects of Protection on Productivity.

Chapter 9. Endogenous Growth Theory in a Vintage Capital
Model.

Chapter 10. Equilibrium Growth in Model with Economic
Obsolescence of Machines.

Chapter 11. More on Putty-Clay.

Chapter 12. On Estimation of Production Functions from
International Cross-Section Data.

PART III. FACTOR MARKETS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT.

Introduction.

Chapter 13. Terms and Conditions of Sharecropping Contracts: An
Analysis of Village Survey Data in India.

Chapter 14. Terms and Conditions of Labor Contracts in
Agriculture: Results of a Survey in West Bengal 1979.

Chapter 15. On Measuring Rural Unemployment.

Chapter 16. Labor-Typing in a Poor Agrarian Economy: A
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.

Chapter 17. Labor Mobility and the Boundaries of the Village
Moral Economy.

Chapter 18. Interlinkage of Land, Labor and Credit Relations in
Agriculture: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in East India.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Pranab Bardhan is a master of small, clear, and pointed
economic models. He is also a virtuoso at making them speak to
important questions of economic development. The last third of this
book reveals yet another Bardhan: the patient digger after the ways
in which social institutions and economic law combine to activate
village economies in rural India. There is something to learn about
economic development on every page."

Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate, MIT

"Pranab Bardhan is one of the most influential development
economists of his generation. His approach, which emphasises the
interplay of economic and social institutions in shaping resource
allocation, now permeates mainstream thinking about how economies
work. These essays provide key insights into the economics of
growth, trade, and factor markets and will be of interest to a wide
range of scholars interested in the processes of economic
development."Timothy Besley, London School of Economics

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Economic Development • Economics • Macroeconomics • Makroökonomie • Makroökonomie • Volkswirtschaftslehre • wirtschaftliche Entwicklung
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-4200-6 / 1405142006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4200-7 / 9781405142007