Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980
- Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2017
- 1 electronic resource (378 p.)
Open Access
This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of the market» as a panacea for underdevelopment. He focuses not only on the genesis of underdevelopment, but also on the causes of popularity of economic planning, and the advent of neoliberalism in the discourse of development economics. This book evaluates the power of state as a vehicle of progress and focuses in detail on the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Korea.
General & world history Asian history African history Military history Political science & theory Political ideologies Political structure & processes Economics
1943–1980 20th century history Developing countries in 20th century Economic planning Economic underdevelopment Economy Growth History of Poland Leap Leszczyński Modernity Periphery Political Political economy of development