Developmentalism : the normative and transformative within capitalism
Graham Harrison
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | vii, 282 sider
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| Opplysninger | Section I: Developmentalism as a political theory of transformation -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Capitalist development -- 3: The capabilities approach and liberalism -- 4: Realism and political economy. -- Section II: Case Studies -- 5: Britain -- 6: America -- 7: The Post-Imperial Era and Japan -- 8: Taiwan and Israel -- 9: Rwanda and China -- 10: Conclusion. - Sammendrag: Why do so few countries achieve development success? Achieving development requires many changes over a short period of time, generating instability and risk. It is a deep and integrated economy of change involving force, strategic thinking, and ideological conviction - it emerges when successful development is seen as necessary for the survival of a political order. Developmentalism engages with the moral issues that this raises.Developmentalism: The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism uses a historical comparative approach to understand development as a transformation which involves a deep and integrated political economy of change - a shift from a state of 'capital-ascendance' to 'capital dominance'. It is only through a transformation towards capital dominance that mass poverty reduction and the construction of a commonwealth are possible. However, capitalist development is extremely difficult and requires a highly exacting political endeavour. The politics of development is conceptualized as developmentalism: a strategy and ideology in which governments exercise heavy directive power, endure instability and crisis, and secure a rudimentary legitimacy for their efforts. This book argues that developmentalism requires a conflation of successful capitalist transformation with some form of existential insecurity of the state itself. It flourishes when capitalist transformation connects to profound questions of sovereignty, statehood, nation-building, and elite survival. Developmentalism shows deep contextualisation of capitalist transformation as well as the massive improvements in material life that it has generated.
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| Emner | Economic development - Political aspects.
økonomisk utvikling politiske aspekter deskriptiv forskning case studier Storbritannia Amerika Japan Taiwan Israel Rwanda Kina |
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| ISBN | 9780198785798
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