Leap into Modernity - Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943-1980

This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of the market» as a panacea for underdevelopment. He focuses not only on the genesis of underdevelopment, but also on the causes of popularity of economic planning, and the advent of neoliberalism in the discourse of development economics. This book evaluates the power of state as a vehicle of progress and focuses in detail on the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Korea.

List of contents

Soviet Union - Poland - Ghana - South Korea - Development after World War II - Power of state as a vehicle of progress - United professional economists - Elites from Poland, China and Ghana, and UN bureaucrats

About the author

Adam Leszczy¿skiis an Assistant Professor in the Polish Academy of Sciences. He won several awards for both his historical works and publications on developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Leszczy¿ski, Adam Leszczynski
• Assisted by: Anna Wolff-Poweska (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9783631656365
• ISBN: 978-3-631-65636-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 29 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 580 g
• Series: Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik; Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik; Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Studies in History, Memory and Politics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989)