Income Distribution, Market Imperfections and Capital Accumulation in a Developing Economy

Asim K. Dasgupta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

78 Seiten

2018 | 2018 ed.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-1632-6 (ISBN)

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The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country. In conventional analyses, such explanations are often found exogenised in terms of factors such as socio-cultural attitudes towards saving and investment, irrationality of peasant behaviour, technological aspects of externalities and demographic parameters. This book provides an alternative explanation in terms of distribution of income and assets.

Focusing on the agricultural sector of a developing economy, it describes how this approach can be extended to cover the industrial sector as well. Further, it develops a model that is then used to analyse the specific problem of capital accumulation in agriculture.

Professor Asim K. Dasgupta was Minister of Finance (1987-88 to 2010-11) in the Government of West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D in Economics with a Widrow Wilson Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), USA in 1975. He also taught at the College of Business Administration, Boston University (1973-74) and at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, India.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Characteristics of the Economy.- Chapter 2: The Model.- Chapter 3: Behaviour of the System over Time.- Chapter 4: Significance of the Distribution of Income and Structure of Credit Market.- Chapter 5: Different Ways of Resolving the Crisis.- Chapter 6: Some Other Results in the Literature.- Chapter 7: Generalisations.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 78 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	981-13-1632-5 / 9811316325
ISBN-13	978-981-13-1632-6 / 9789811316326
Zustand	Neuware