1st Edition

Catching Up The Limits of Rapid Economic Development

By Vladislav Inozemtsev Copyright 2002
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

189 Pages
by Routledge

Disparities between the economic development of nations have widened throughout the twentieth century, and they show no sign of closing. In the nineteenth century, the economic potential of developed countries was three times that of the rest of the world. Today the gap is twenty times greater, and the trend is increasing. In this provocative reexamination of theories of accelerated development,... Read more
Introduction to the American Edition 1. The Concept of Catching Up Development in the Twentieth Century 2. Post-Industrial Trends and Prerequisites for the Crisis of the Catching Up Development Model 3. Internal Contradictions of the Catching Up Development Model 4. The Japanese Economic Miracle: A Manifest Success or a Strategic Setback? 5. Southeast Asia: From Boom to Crisis 6. China: Sharing the Fate of the Others or Going Its Distinctive Way? 7. Russia: Pipe Dreams and Realistic Objectives Index

Biography

Vladislav Inozemtsev