International Trade, Growth, and Development

by Bardhan, Pranab

• ISBN13: 9781405101417
• ISBN10: 1405101415
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Part I Trade and Development	1	(82)
Introduction	3	(4)
Credit Markets and Patterns of International Trade	7	(13)
Localized Technical Progress and Transfer of Technology and Economic Development	20	(10)
Quality Variations and the Choice between Foreign and Indigenous Goods or Technology	30	(7)
Imports, Domestic Production, and Transnational Vertical Integration: A Theoretical Note	37	(15)
Disparity in Wages but not in Returns to Capital Between Rich and Poor Countries	52	(13)
On Optimum Subsidy to a Learning Industry: An Aspect of the Theory of Infant-Industry Protection	65	(18)
Part II Vintage Capital Growth Models	83	(86)
Introduction	85	(3)
International Trade Theory in a Vintage-Capital Model	88	(13)
Dynamic Effects of Protection on Productivity	101	(12)
Endogenous Growth Theory in a Vintage Capital Model	113	(20)
Equilibrium Growth in a Model with Economic Obsolescence of Machines	133	(11)
More on Putty-Clay	144	(13)
On Estimation of Production Functions from International Cross-Section Data	157	(12)
Part III Factor Markets and Rural Development	169	(112)
Introduction	171	(4)
Terms and Conditions of Sharecropping Contracts: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in India	175	(16)
Terms and Conditions of Labor Contracts in Agriculture: Results of a Survey in West Bengal 1979	191	(24)
On Measuring Rural Unemployment	215	(10)
Labor-Tying in a Poor Agrarian Economy: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	225	(13)
Labor Mobility and the Boundaries of the Village Moral Economy	238	(21)
Interlinkage of Land, Labor and Credit Relations in Agriculture: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in East India	259	(22)
Index	281