Development The Re-Balancing of Economic Powers /

• Main Author: Vaggi, Gianni (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Development economics.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Economic history.; Economic development.; Economic growth.; Development Economics.; Economic Policy.; Social Policy.; Economic History.; Development Studies.; Economic Growth.

This book provides a brief history of the concept of development and policies relating to it. Readers will find an overview of how development has been discussed and debates from 1950 to the present. The author argues that development is a dialectic relationship between people's empowerment and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. In the Beginning There Was Economic Growth
• 2. Towards a Broader Definition of Development
• 3. The Economy Strikes Back: Convergence, Divergence and Imbalances
• 4. The Founding Fathers and the Long-Run Visions
• 5. Sustainable Reproduction, Use and Exchange values
• 6. Making the Global Partnership Work.