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Tables of Contents for The Political Economy of Gunnar Myrdal
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
vii
1
Preface
viii
5
Acknowledgements
xiii
1. Transformation Policy: Searching for a Useful Perspective
1
31
The economy and the process of evolution or transformation
1
2
Transformation issues in CEE and in China
3
9
Evaluation of CEE and Chinese economies from a Myrdalian view
12
4
Summary
16
1
Evaluation of Poland's economic performance from an IMF view
17
5
Summary of the Polish economy's performance since 1990
22
1
The performance of China's economy
23
3
Summary - Poland vs. China
26
1
Efficacy of continuing the initial transformation policies in CEE
27
2
Towards an institutional basis for a useful transformation perspective: Myrdal's political economy
29
3
2. Gunnar Myrdal I: 1915-33, The Years of `High Theory'
32
16
Introduction
32
1
Biographical sketch and major contributions
32
5
Theoretical macroeconomist in the Neoclassical-Wicksellian tradition
37
3
GM in the mainstream?
40
6
Summary - The transition to GM II
46
2
3. Gunnar Myrdal II: 1929-38, Political and Social Economist
48
19
Introduction
48
1
The intellectual development of GM II: Theoretician, political economist, and social economist
49
11
GM II's transition to an interdisciplinary methodology
60
4
Summary - The transition to GM III
64
3
4. Gunnar Myrdal III: 1938-87, Emergence as an Institutional Economist
67
30
Introduction
67
1
Biographical sketch and major contributions
67
16
The intellectual development of an institutional economist
83
4
A unique, heterodox method of analysis
87
8
GM III against the mainstream
95
2
5. Myrdalian Contributions to Transformation Issues
97
49
Introduction
97
2
A more objective approach to social science research
99
2
Offering a vision for each society's future
101
4
Conception of institutional conditions and behavior of the socioeconomic order that had to be transformed
105
15
Method of analysis and theories to explain behavior of the socioeconomic order
120
1
Policy prescriptions to transform troubled societies
121
14
A Myrdalian view of economics education and a proposal for reform
135
9
Conclusions
144
2
Appendix: Two Interviews With Gunnar Myrdal
146
22
First Interview - July 1980
146
16
Second Interview - July 1982
162
6
Notes
168
13
References
181
14
Index
195