TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snowdon, Brian
TI  - Globalisation, development and transition: conversations with eminent economists
SN  - 9781845428501
U1  - 337 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 20th century
N1  - The fall and rise of globalisation
Introduction
Globalisation v. 'globaphobia' 
The gains from trade and good governance 
When did globalisation begin?
The 'great reversal' : international disintegration and recovery
Financial globalisation
The benefits and costs of financial integration
Exchange rate regimes and the 'open-economy trilemma' 
The role of the International Monetary Fund 
Globalisation and the IMF : some lessons from the 1990s 
International labour migration 
The 'offshore outsourcing' controversy
The size of nations
Growth, productivity and international competitiveness
Analysing global competitiveness
The Growth Competitiveness Index 
The Business Competitiveness Index 
The Global Competitiveness Index
Improving competitiveness of developing countries
Conclusion

Economic development in historical perspective 
Introduction
The 'great escape'
Alternative measures of 'progress'
Income measures
Beyond income measures of progress : basic needs, the PQLI and life expectancy 
The Human Development Index
Competitiveness indices 
Measures of freedom 
Anthropometrics 
The economics of obesity 
The economics of happiness and life satisfaction 
The birth of development economics
From the 'dirigiste consensus' to the 'Washington consensus' and beyond 
Growth and development 
Growth, development and the role of institutions
Economic history and institutions 
Bandits and kleptocrats 
Barriers to growth and development
Sub-Saharan Africa's 'growth tragedy' 
From 'Marshall Plan' to Millennium Development Goals 
2005 : a 'pivotal year' in the development debate? 
The foreign aid controversy 
Aid and poverty traps 
Foreign aid : a 'weapon of mass salvation' 
Conclusion

The rise and fall of the socialist system and the trials of transition 
Introduction 
The legacy of Marx 
The rise and fall of the socialist system and the Soviet Union, 1917-91
From 'golden age' growth to slowdown 
Western perceptions of the socialist system 
Economic analysis under socialism 
From glasnost and perestroika to transition
The political economy of transition 
A third way : is market socialism feasible?
Alternative paths of transition : the shock therapy v. gradualism debate 
The political economy of reform
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