International Trade, Growth, and Development
Published on 8. May 2008
296 pages
978-1-4051-4200-7 (ISBN)
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This collection of essays draws from over thirty years of work by noted economist Pranab Bardhan to address the inter-related themes of international trade, growth, and rural development. Covering a wide range of important issues within the field, these essays describe theoretical and empirical perspectives on economic agents both at the micro and macro levels of the economy in development. Introductions to each of the book's three sections place the articles in perspective and relate them to current research.
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"Pranab Bardhan is a master of small, clear, and pointedeconomic models. He is also a virtuoso at making them speak toimportant questions of economic development. The last third of thisbook reveals yet another Bardhan: the patient digger after the waysin which social institutions and economic law combine to activatevillage economies in rural India. There is something to learn abouteconomic development on every page." Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate, MIT "Pranab Bardhan is one of the most influential developmenteconomists of his generation. His approach, which emphasises theinterplay of economic and social institutions in shaping resourceallocation, now permeates mainstream thinking about how economieswork. These essays provide key insights into the economics ofgrowth, trade, and factor markets and will be of interest to a widerange of scholars interested in the processes of economicdevelopment."Timothy Besley, London School of EconomicsMore details
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Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley, and co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation- funded Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Development Economics, has contributed numerous journal articles, and has written or edited 15 books, including The Role of Governance in Economic Development: A Political Economy Approach (1997), Development Microeconomics (with Christopher Udry, 2000), and the two-volume Readings in Development Microeconomics (with Christopher Udry, 2000).
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I. TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Credit Markets and Patterns of InternationalTrade.
Chapter 2. Localized Technical Progress and Transfer ofTechnology and Economic Development.
Chapter 3. Quality Variations and the Choice between Foreign andIndigenous Goods or Technology.
Chapter 4. Imports, Domestic Productions, and TransnationalVertical Integration: A Theoretical Note.
Chapter 5. Disparity in Wages but not in Returns to CapitalBetween Rich and Poor Countries.
Chapter 6. On Optimum Subsidy to a Lending Industry: An Aspectof the Theory of Infant-Industry Protection.
PART II. VINTAGE CAPITAL GROWTH MODELS.
Introduction.
Chapter 7. International Trade Theory in a Vintage-CapitalModel.
Chapter 8. Dynamic Effects of Protection on Productivity.
Chapter 9. Endogenous Growth Theory in a Vintage CapitalModel.
Chapter 10. Equilibrium Growth in Model with EconomicObsolescence of Machines.
Chapter 11. More on Putty-Clay.
Chapter 12. On Estimation of Production Functions fromInternational Cross-Section Data.
PART III. FACTOR MARKETS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT.
Introduction.
Chapter 13. Terms and Conditions of Sharecropping Contracts: AnAnalysis of Village Survey Data in India.
Chapter 14. Terms and Conditions of Labor Contracts inAgriculture: Results of a Survey in West Bengal 1979.
Chapter 15. On Measuring Rural Unemployment.
Chapter 16. Labor-Typing in a Poor Agrarian Economy: ATheoretical and Empirical Analysis.
Chapter 17. Labor Mobility and the Boundaries of the VillageMoral Economy.
Chapter 18. Interlinkage of Land, Labor and Credit Relations inAgriculture: An Analysis of Village Survey Data in East India.
Index.
