Uses of Diversity - Essays in Polycentricity

Informationen zum Autor David Ellerman is formerly of the World Bank. Klappentext This book argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, development assistance, and human discourse. Much of the material is based on the author's decade in the World Bank whose policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of approaches or even the open contestation of alternatives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Jane Jacobs: The Diva of Diversity Chapter 2: Two Institutional Logics: Exit Vs. Voice and Commitment Chapter 3: Parallel Experimentation Chapter 4: Contestation and Devil's Advocacy Chapter 5: The Indirect Approach Chapter 6: Knowledge and Autonomy-Compatible Development Assistance Chapter 7: Investment Climate for Whom?: Rethinking Globalization Chapter 8: Revisiting the Privatization Debates Chapter 9: The Logical Fallacy in the Kaldor-Hick Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis Chapter 10: A Summing Up

Product details

• Authors: David Ellerman, Ellerman David
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781793623720
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-372-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance; Polycentricity: Studies in Ins
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Politics & government, Economic theory & philosophy, Politics and government, Economic theory and philosophy