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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485584603321

Autore

Leszczyński Adam <1975->

Titolo

Leap into modernity : political economy of growth on the periphery, 1943-1980 / / Adam Leszczyński

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : Peter Lang Edition, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-631-71000-3

3-653-04886-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 pages)

Collana

Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik, , 2191-3528 ; ; Band 16

Disciplina

338.9009/045

Soggetti

Economic history - 20th century

Economic development - History - 20th century

Economics - Political aspects - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

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.