Frontiers of Development Economics The Future in Perspective

by USA, Oxford University Press; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Meier, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780195215922
• ISBN10: 0195215923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: World Bank Publications

Summary

Edited by Vice President of the World Bank and Gerald Meier, author of several very successful Oxford titles, Frontiers in Development, offers cutting edge thinking from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Nicholas Stern
Preface	ix
Gerald M. Meier
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Introduction: Ideas for Development	1	(12)
Gerald M. Meier
The Old Generation of Development Economists and the New	13	(48)
Gerald M. Meier
Comment	51	(7)
Philippe Aghion
Comment	58	(3)
Hla Myint
On the Goals of Development	61	(42)
Kaushik Basu
Comment	87	(7)
Paul P. Streeten
Comment	94	(9)
Michael Lipton
Fallacies in Development Theory and Their Implications for Policy	103	(46)
Irma Adelman
Comment	135	(12)
David Vines
Comment	147	(2)
Sir Hans Singer
Revisiting the Challenge of Development	149	(34)
Vinod Thomas
The Evolution of Thinking about Poverty: Exploring the Interactions	183	(44)
Ravi Kanbur
Lyn Squire
Development Issues: Settled and Open	227	(42)
Shahid Yusuf
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Distributive Conflicts, Collective Action, and Institutional Economics	269	(32)
Pranab Bardhan
Comment	291	(5)
Irma Adelman
Comment	296	(5)
Paul Collier
Historical Perspectives on Development	301	(44)
Nicholas Crafts
Comment	335	(5)
Avner Greif
Comment	340	(5)
David Landes
In Quest of the Political: The Political Economy of Development Policymaking	345	(44)
Merilee S. Grindle
Comment	381	(3)
Gustav Ranis
Comment	384	(5)
Timothy Besley
Modern Economic Theory and Development	389	(174)
Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Comment	460	(4)
Gustav Ranis
Comment	464	(14)
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Comment	478	(9)
Debraj Ray
Appendixes
Reflections by Nobel Prize Laureates	487	(28)
A Research Agenda	489	(2)
Lawrence R. Klein
Needed: A Theory of Change	491	(1)
Douglass C. North
Sparks and Grit from the Anvil of Growth	492	(14)
Paul A. Samuelson
What Is Development About?	506	(8)
Amartya K. Sen
Candidate Issues in Development Economics	514	(1)
Robert M. Solow
Reflections by Pioneers	515	(48)
``Pioneers Revisited''	517	(3)
Sir Hans Singer
International Trade and the Domestic Institutional Framework	520	(9)
Hla Myint
The Economics of a Stagnant Population	529	(12)
W. W. Rostow
The View from the Trenches: Development Processes and Policies as Seen by a Working Professional	541	(22)
Arnold C. Harberger
Contributors and Commentators	563	(2)
Index	565