1st Edition
The Political Economy of Nation Building The World's Unfinished Business
By Mack Ott
Copyright 2012
440 Pages
by
Routledge
438 Pages
by
Routledge
437 Pages
by
Routledge
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Donor nations may advise and counsel, but the creation of a liberal nation state falls to its own people. They must create laws, exercise their liberties, provide freedom of belief and expression, and protect individual property rights. No nation becomes or remains free unless its people build, use, and defend these institutions, and protect them with understanding, vigilance, and effort. The... Read more
Prologue: Origins of the Liberal Nation-State; 1: The Rule of Law, the Evolution of the Common Law, and King in Parliament; 2: The Decline of Feudalism and the Rise of Free Labor, Private Property, and the Market; 3: Separation of Faith and Governance, the Rise of Literacy, and the Emergence of Civil Society; 4: The Autonomy of Credit and Finance; 5: The Complex Quest for Economic Growth 1; 6: Steps and Missteps in Nation Building; 7: The Rule of Law and Matters of Good Governance; 8: Privatization and the Expansion of the Middle Class; 9: Nurturing Civil Society and Tolerance; 10: Money, Credit, and Transactions—Enabling Financial Development; 11: Economic Growth and Inequality; Epilogue: Nation Building and the Security of Freedom
Biography
Mack Ott
