Description
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries fills a gap in the existing literature on development economics and growth theory. The volume makes an original contribution from an unorthodox perspective. -- Nora Lustig, George Washington University
About the Author
Jose Antonio Ocampo is professor and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. He has enjoyed a long career of public service in his own country, Colombia, and the United Nations. He has published extensively on macroeconomics, development economics, and economic history. His most recent book is Capital Market Liberalization, edited with Joseph E. Stiglitz. Codrinda Rada is assistant professor of economics at the University of Utah and a former economic affairs officer at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Her paper "Stagnation or Transformation of a Dual Economy Through Endogenous Productivity Growth?" is used as a basic tool of analysis in this book. Lance Taylor is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School University. He has taught at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota, and the Stockholm School of Economics. He has written extensively on structuralist macroeconomics, including his textbook Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream.
Reviews
This analysis, diagnosis, and prescription, embedded in the structuralist tradition of economic thought, is refreshingly different. -- Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the New School University, New York
Book Information
ISBN 9780231150149
Author Jose Antonio Ocampo
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press