Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development

Informationen zum Autor Dr Michael G. Heller is a political scientist specialising in development issues. He has held research and teaching positions at universities in Mexico (Colegio de México)! the United Kingdom (School of Oriental and African Studies)! Argentina (Universidad de Cuyo)! and Australia (University of Technology Sydney). Klappentext Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Schumpeter! Weber! Hayek! Popper and Parsons! this book challenges current orthodoxies about varieties of capitalism and relativist recipes for economic growth. It criticises culturalist and incremental viewpoints and calls for prosperous open societies. Zusammenfassung In this forthright challenge to relativist economic recipes for growth and culturalist-incrementalist views in institutional economics, Heller draws on Weber, Schumpeter, and Hayek to present a new universalistic vision of capitalism's depersonalized institutions as well as the ideological policies needed during constructed capitalist transitions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Institutional Capitalism 2. The Modern State 3. Law and Economy 4. Development in Disequilibrium 5. Carriers of Change 6. Models of Crisis 7. The Transition Sequence 8. Making the Change

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• Authors: Michael Heller, Michael G. Heller, Michael G. (University of Technology Heller, HELLER MICHAEL G, Heller Michael G.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2011
• EAN: 9780415694452
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69445-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; History, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, International Economics, Political Economy, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies