This book assembles some of the most exciting contributions to the field of comparative capitalism studies. The book is a must-read for all scholars that strive to be up-to date in the debate on the developmental state.

--Andreas Nolke is Professor of Political Science at the Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

This volume extends the earlier "developmental state" literature into the present, and the earlier world-system concept of the semi-periphery into present-day debates about institutions, path dependency, middle-income trap, and authoritarianism. Written from the perspective of the Global East and South, it reads like a breath of fresh air for those of us schooled in the Western narrative of development and modernization.

--Robert H. Wade is Professor of Political Economy and Development at the LSE, UK

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy. The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a much broader understanding of development and a very different global economic context. They also further the existing debate by covering new country cases. At the same time, they deepen our perspective on developmental states by looking at unusual sectors such as green industrial policy, education and farming.

Gerocs, Tamás is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics and SUNY Binghamton, United States.

Ricz, Judit is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics and Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

Autorentext

Gercs, Tamás is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics and SUNY Binghamton, United States.

 Ricz, Judit is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of World Economics and Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

Zusammenfassung

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy. The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a much broader understanding of development and a very different global economic context. They also further the existing debate by covering new country cases. At the same time, they deepen our perspective on developmental states by looking at unusual sectors such as green industrial policy, education and farming.

Inhalt

List of contributors

1.     Introduction

Judit Ricz

2.     Institutions and Change: New Horizons in Economic Theory

László Csaba

3.     On big cycles in development of global capitalism

Andrei Yakovlev

4.   Catching-up opportunities of East-Central European States in the Context of Technology Cycles

Miklós Szanyi

  5.     On the emergence of developmental states in the twenty-first century: urgency or agency?

Judit Ricz

6.     Green industrial policy and development taking advanced economies over?

Andrea Szalavetz

  7.     Educational developmentalism: the case of Taiwan

György Csáki  

8.     Easier said than done. Namibia's 'declaratory' developmental state and the obstacles to successful industrial policy.

Christopher Hope

9.     Bringing the 'international' into discourses on developmental statehood in Ethiopia

Ekaette Ikpe

10.  Developmental or Impoverishing Urban Cores? The Case of Slovakia

István Kollai

11.  The underperforming state of Zimbabwe - a case study on Tobacco contract farming.

Ruvarasche Masocha

12.    State-led development in the global trading system a real threat to stability?

Gábor Vigvári

13.  Development and trade policy in North Africa

Tamás Szigetvári

14.  The Demise of Brazilian Developmental State: Political Constraints and the Role of Finance

Andrea Oliveira Ribeiro and Roberta Rodrigues Marques Da Silva**

15.  Mystification of power and development in Pakistan Nazia Nazeer

16.    Conclusion: New Developmentalism in the 21st Century. A perspective from the Global East and South**

Tamás Gercs  

Index