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Informationen zum Autor Alice Amsden (now deceased) was Barton L. Weller Professor of Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She authored Asia's Next Giant and the Rise of 'The Rest'. Most recently, she criticized the 'capabilities' approach to poverty alleviation, arguing that healthier and more educated job seekers cannot get jobs because there are none, and they cannot lower their subsistence wage any further. Some of her last work, alongside co-directing the UNU-WIDER research project and co-editing the resulting volume on the role of elites, was on a manuscript entitled 'The Rational Revolution: Learning from Role Models, Deserting Deductive Theory', which maintains that countries develop by studying what each other do, not from poring over Enlightenment propositions in their orthodox or modern manifestation.Alisa DiCaprio is a Research Fellow at United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research. Prior to joining UNU-WIDER, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy. In addition to her academic work, she has worked in the public and private sector supporting US trade policy, researching emerging market opportunities for exporters, and organizing unions in the healthcare sector.James Robinson is David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University and a faculty associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Professor Robinson studied economics at the London School of Economics, the University of Warwick, and Yale University. He previously taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne and the University of Southern California. Before moving to Harvard he was a Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. His main research interest is the political economy of development with a particular interest in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Klappentext Elites play a crucial role in the development process. The impact they have on growth and development exceeds their representation within a country. This volume uses case studies from South Africa to China to seek an understanding of the relationship between elites and economic development. Zusammenfassung Elites play a crucial role in the development process. The impact they have on growth and development exceeds their representation within a country. This volume uses case studies from South Africa to China to seek an understanding of the relationship between elites and economic development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alisa DiCaprio: Introduction: The Role of Elites in Economic Development Part I: Theoretical Considerations 2: Alice H. Amsden: Elites and Property Rights 3: James A. Robinson: Elites and Institutional Persistence Part II: The Formation and Circulation of Elites 4: Andres Solimano and Diego Avanzini: The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial, and Political 5: Johan Fourie and Dieter von Fintel: Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony 6: Alison Wolf: Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites 7: Bjorn Gustafsson and Sai Ding: New Light on China's Rural Elites Part III: The Preferences of Elites 8: Elisa P. Reis: Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian Elites 9: Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo: Mutual Interdependence between Elites and the Poor 10: Xiaowei Zang: Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth? Part IV: Elites and State Capactiy 11: Francois Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier: The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour under Limited State Capacity 12: Thomas Cantens: Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration? The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon 13: Monica Pinhan...
