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Tables of Contents for Development Economics--Nature and Significance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
11
6
Paul Streeten
Acknowledgements
17
4
Part I Foundational Issues
21
54
Development Economics: A Bird's-eye View
23
18
Who Wears the Emperor's New Clothes?
41
18
Obituary Notices for Development Economics
42
5
Schultz's Iconoclasm
42
2
Hirschman's Obituary
44
3
Search for New Foundations
47
12
A Paradigm Shift
48
5
The Empirical Content of Development Economics
53
6
The Liberalist Counter-revolution and Development Economics
59
16
The Rise of the Defunct Economist
61
2
Development Economics as a Guide
63
4
The Age of Chivalry
63
4
The Evolution of Development Policy
67
8
Growth Fundamentalism
68
2
The Emergence of New-old Religion
70
5
Part II The Mixed-economy Route to Development
75
34
Where the Visible and Invisible Hand Meet
77
15
The Anatomy of a Mixed Economy
78
6
The Evolution of a Development Consensus
78
6
The Development Economist's Backyard
84
4
Neo-Keynesianism and Monetarism
84
4
The Mixed-economy Route to Economic Progress
88
4
Efficiency, Equity and Markets
92
17
Free Markets and Efficiency
93
5
`Price Rightism'
94
4
Free Markets and International Trade
98
6
The Neo-classical Orthodoxy
99
2
Export Expansion versus Import Substitution
101
3
Free Markets, Income Distribution and Equality
104
5
Free Markets and Income Distribution
104
3
Free Markets and Equality
107
2
Part III Morality and Development
109
48
A Moral Perspective on the Market Success and Government Failure Debate
111
22
Government Failure and Universal Market Success
112
9
Pareto Optimality as Collective Choice Rule
113
1
The Efficiency of Pareto Optimality
113
2
The `Fairness' of Pareto Optimality
115
1
Pareto Optimality and Individual Liberty
115
2
A Minimalist State?
117
3
The `Invisible Foot'
120
1
Market Failure and Government Success
121
12
Alternative Social Choice Rules
122
1
Harsanyi's Social Welfare Function
123
1
Rawlsian Collective Choice Rule
124
2
Sen's `Functionings' and `Capability'
126
7
When Morals Matter
133
24
The Morality of Development Economics
135
6
Selfishness and the Status Quo
135
2
Altruism and Economic Change
137
4
On the Immorality of Moral `Rights'
141
4
Nozickian Theory of Entitlement
141
2
The Priority of Liberty
143
2
Moral Contents of Development Policy
145
12
The Poverty Issue
145
1
Reducing Inequality
146
3
Competition, Cooperative Action and Distributive Justice
149
1
On Equality
150
2
Human Development
152
5
Part IV A Futuristic Perspective
157
83
Development Economics as a Paradigm
159
31
The Intellectual Legacy
159
6
Relationship with Neighbours
162
3
Building up the Heritage
165
5
Elements of the Development Paradigm
170
20
Growth and Distribution
171
2
The Question of Sectoral Balance
173
1
Labour Markets
174
1
The Market versus the Government
175
5
Ethics and Development
180
3
Endogenizing Demography
183
2
The Development Economics of Supply and Demand
185
5
Development Economics and Globalization
190
29
The Challenge of Globalization
191
13
The Bitter Liberalist Medicine
192
2
What Moves Globalization?
194
5
Does Globalization Mean Free (Freer) World Markets?
199
2
Globalization, Growth and Distribution
201
3
The Nature of Response I
204
7
The Economics of Structural Transformation
205
3
The `Orderly' Transformation `Scenario'
208
1
Neo-classical Explanations of Economic Growth
209
2
The Nature of Response II
211
8
Human Development
211
8
The Future of Development Economics
219
21
Whither Development Economics?
221
2
Elements of an Emerging Consensus
223
8
The Reassertion of a Non-minimal State
224
2
Emphasizing Egalitarianism
226
2
The Asymmetrical Working of International Trade and Investment
228
1
The Importance of Morality
229
2
A New Paradigm?
231
3
`The Road Less Travelled By'
234
6
References
240
22
Index
262
9
About the Author
271