您现在的位置：快乐比价网 > 图书 > 经济管理 > 理财 > 商品详情

The elusive quest for growth为增长逃避探求：经济学家在热带地区的幸与不幸

分享到：

最低价：￥163.70

定价：￥226.00

作者：WilliamEasterly　著著

出版社：

出版时间：2002-8-1

I S B N：9780262550420

价格比较

商品详情

商品评论(0条)

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

送货上门

价格
163.70元

The elusive quest for growth为增长逃避探求：经济学家在热带地区的幸与不幸

送货上门

价格
180.80元

商品详情

编辑推荐

内容简介

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work.
　　In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people--private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors--respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.

作者简介

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Quest
I Why Growth Matters
　1 To Help the Poor
　　Intermezzo: In Search of a River
II Panaceas That Failed
　2 Aid for Investment
　　Intermezzo: Parmila
　3 Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth
　　Intermezzo: Dry Cornstalks
　4 Educated for What?
　　Intermezzo: Without a Refuge
　5 Cash for Condoms?
　　Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings
　6 The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't
　　Intermezzo: Leila's Story
　7 Forgive Us Our Debts
　　Intermezzo: Cardboard House
III People Respond to Incentives
　8 Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps
　　Intermezzo: War and Memory
　9 Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology
　　Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica
　10 Under an Evil Star
　　Intermezzo: Favela Life
　11 Governments Can Kill Growth
　　Intermezzo: Florence and Veronica
　12 Corruption and Growth
　　Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur
　13 Polarized Peoples
　　Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries
　14 Conclusion: The View from Lahore
Notes
References and Further Reading
Index