1st Edition

Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development

By Michael G. Heller Copyright 2009
336 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that enable durable market-based wealth generation and social order. Few countries have achieved this. A novel... Read more

1. Institutional Capitalism  2. The Modern State  3. Law and Economy  4. Development in Disequilibrium  5. Carriers of Change  6. Models of Crisis  7. The Transition Sequence  8. Making the Change

Biography

Dr Michael G. Heller is a political scientist specialising in development issues. He has held research and teaching positions at universities in Mexico (Colegio de México), the United Kingdom (School of Oriental and African Studies), Argentina (Universidad de Cuyo), and Australia (University of Technology Sydney).