250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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As a result of the liberalization of the 1980s, the financial system has acquired a prominent role in developing economies. It is now conventional wisdom that `financial liberalization' is the means to stimulate economic development. Investment Finance in Economic Development challenges this assumption and offers an alternative view. The book presents a post-Keynesian approach to the role of... Read more
Preface 1 Introduction 2 Finance and economic development: The dominance of the prior-saving argument 3 Departing from the prior-saving argument: Finance in a monetary production economy 4 Saving and financial markets in economic growth 5 Financial structures, financial development and economic development 6 From theory to evidence 7 Financial system and industrialisation in Brazil, 1947-66 8 The financial reforms and the ‘economic miracle’ 9 Towards the lost decade: The financial system in the imbalanced growth (1973-83) 10 Conclusion
Biography
Rogkrio Studart is Associate Professor of Economics and Tutor of Undergraduate Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
