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How rich countries got rich... and why poor countries stay poor / Erik S. Reinert.

By: Publication details: London : Constable, 2007.Description: xxix, 365 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781845298746 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9009 REI
Contents:
Introduction 1. Discovering types of economic theories; 2. The evolution of the two different approaches; 3. Emulation : how rich countries got rich; 4. Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against; 5. Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer; 6. Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history; 7. Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea - 8. 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries;
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Introduction
1. Discovering types of economic theories;
2. The evolution of the two different approaches;
3. Emulation : how rich countries got rich;
4. Globalization : the arguments in favour are also the arguments against;
5. Globalization and primitivization : how the poor get even poorer;
6. Explaining away failure : red herrings at the end of history;
7. Palliative economics : why the millennium goals are a bad idea -
8. 'Get the economic activities right', or, the lost art of creating middle-income countries;