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The Nature of Economic Growth: An Alternative Framework for Understanding the Performance of Nations A. P. Thirlwall 9781843763383
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The Nature of Economic Growth: An Alternative Framework for Understanding the Performance of Nations A. P. Thirlwall 9781843763383

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This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory.

The author presents conventional wisdom with a critical eye and charts development economics as it has evolved from Adam Smith to 'new' or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tries to put back demand as a driving force in growth theory. He argues that in an open developing economy one of the major constraints is the availability of foreign exchange to pay for imports, so that export growth which relaxes a balance of payments constraint on demand becomes a crucial determinant of overall growth performance. Demand creating its own supply in a growth context, rather than the pre-Keynesian view of supply creating its own demand, provides an alternative framework to the neo-classical one for understanding the differential growth performance of nations.

This highly original book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of development and growth economics.



About the Author
A.P. Thirlwall, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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'. . . the book succeeds brilliantly in its main aim, which is to review the key aspects of existing theory, offer an alternative point of view together with many important insights, and show a way forward. It is worth reading and re-reading by any serious, critical and open-minded student of growth and it should greatly contribute to a fruitful dialogue and synthesis between competing schools of thought.' -- Christopher Tsoukis, Journal of Development Studies



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ISBN 9781843763383
Author A. P. Thirlwall
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

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