William D Ferguson

The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book relates a society's prospects for economic and political development to basic types of collective action problems that correspond to particular configurations of institutional systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9781503604612
• ISBN-10: 1503604616
• Artikelnr.: 57163608

Autorenporträt

William D. Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College. He is the author of Collective Action and Exchange: A Game Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy (Stanford, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Toward a Framework for Development Theory
1. Collective-Action Problems and Institutional Systems
2. Economic Development, Political Development, and Inequality
3. Public Goods, Externalities, and Collective-Action Problems of
Governance
4. Economic Foundations of Unequal Development: Knowledge, Skills, Social
Imitation, and Production Externalities
5. Power, Social Conflict, Institutional Formation, and Credible Commitment
6. Policy Innovations Can Relax Political Constraints
7. Alternative Typologies of Social Orders and Political Settlements
8. How Context Influences Development: A New Typology of Political
Settlements
9. Business-State Interactions
Conclusion: A Conceptual Framework for Development Theory