Unequal Development and Capitalism : Catching up and Falling Behind in the Global Economy

Unequal Development and Capitalism Catching up and Falling Behind in the Global Economy

This book is a major resource for readers interested in economic growth and development, heterodox macroeconomics, development economics and related areas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Marquetti, Adalmir, author (author), Miebach, Alessandro, author, Morrone, Henrique, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, England : Routledge [2024]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Routledge frontiers of political economy.
Materias:
Economic development > Developing countries.
Capitalism > Developing countries.
Developing countries > Economic policy.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Endorsements
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Capitalist transformations and unequal development
  • Economic thinking
  • Capitalist transformation
  • Profit rate and capital accumulation
  • Environment crisis, population, and personal income distribution
  • The book's structure and how to navigate it
  • 1. Measuring technical change, catching up, and falling behind globally
  • Measuring growth and distribution
  • Representing technical change
  • The dataset
  • Distribution, growth, and technical change worldwide: A first look
  • Stylized facts
  • 2. A growth model in the classical-Marxian tradition
  • The standard classical-Marxian model
  • The classical-Marxian model of catching up and falling behind
  • Summary and extensions of the model
  • 3. The US economy from the demise of the Golden Age to the crisis of neoliberalism
  • From the Golden Age to the crisis of neoliberalism
  • Technical change and distribution
  • Capital accumulation, profits, neoliberalism, and growth
  • Hegemony, neoliberalism, and capital accumulation
  • 4. Running fast: Catching up in Asia
  • A brief historical perspective of modern Asia
  • Economic growth in modern Asia
  • Technical change and profit rate: Industrialization, institutional change, oil rent, and conflicts
  • The links between profitability, capital accumulation, and catch-up
  • Dilemmas of catching up, profitability, neoliberalism, and environmental sustainability
  • 5. From hope to frustration: Falling behind in Latin America
  • Neoliberalism in Latin America: A brief account
  • Technical change, profit rate, and premature deindustrialization
  • Profit rate, capital accumulation, and neoliberalism
  • Whither Latin America: Leaving neoliberalism?.
  • 6. Restarting capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe
  • From breakdown to peripheral capitalism
  • Technical change and profit rate Before and after the fall
  • Capital accumulation in the Central and Eastern European countries
  • Restarting capitalism and unequal development: Winners and losers
  • 7. The forgotten continent: Falling behind in Africa
  • A brief history of African countries after independence
  • Technical regress and the profit rate in African countries
  • Natural resources, profit rate, and accumulation
  • The new frontier in the making
  • Conclusion: Worldwide lessons for catching-up
  • The necessary conditions for catching up
  • Is (re)industrialization synonymous with catching up and reducing backwardness?
  • Neoliberal capitalism and uneven development
  • A new world ahead
  • Index.

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