Jeffrey D. Sachs

Economic Development and the Division of Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang introduces students to development economics from the perspectives of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis. The book demonstrates how the new-found emphasis on inframarginal analysis has influenced a shift back to an interest in Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics.
Inframarginal Analysis vs. Marginal Analysis is presented as a consistent theoretical framework throughout.
Shows how the relationship of Inframarginal Analysis to Marginal Analysis has influenced the shift back to an interest in Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics with regard to economic development.
Allows economists to reduce their overall reliance on marginal analysis, which may be less relevant to development economics than it is to the economics of development countries.
Brings considerable analytic machinery to bear on important problems.
A focus on institutions and transaction costs that is very relevant to development economics.
Offers a thorough analysis of trade (CHs. 3 - 7) and macroeconomics (CHs. 16 - 19), both of which are not dealth with in depth by comparable textbooks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 664
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2003
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1135g
• ISBN-13: 9780631220046
• ISBN-10: 0631220046
• Artikelnr.: 14801055

Autorenporträt

Xiaokai Yang is a Personal Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His research papers have appeared in The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economics, and other journals. He is the author of Economics: New Classical versus Neoclassical Frameworks (Blackwell, 2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I: Geography and Microeconomic Mechanisms for EconomicDevelopment.

Part II: The Institution of the Firm, Endogenous TransactionCosts, and Economic Development.

Part III: Urbanization and Industrialization.

Part IV: Dynamic Mechanisms for Economic Development.

Part V: Macroeconomics of Development.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Economic Development and the Division of Labor is anexciting contribution that offers innovative perspectives on growthand development. It covers a void in the literature, and provides arich and deep interpretation of the impact of endogenousspecialization, institutions, and economic structure on growth. Thetext strikes a very good balance between the intuitive andanalytical discussions, and relies constantly on references tocontemporary data and the problems facing developingcountries." Joshua Aizenman, Dartmouth College

"Economists, whatever their speciality, will find the bookrewarding to read and stimulating to teach." Merton J.Peck, Yale University

"Xiaokai Yang is one of the world's most penetratingand exacting economic theorists, and one of the most creative mindsin the economics profession." Jeffrey D. Sachs, ColumbiaUniversity