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Record Nr.

UNISA996201181603316

Autore

Evans Peter B. <1944->

Titolo

Embedded autonomy [[electronic resource] ] : states and industrial transformation / / Peter Evans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, ©1995

ISBN

1-4008-0210-5

9786612738333

1-4008-2172-X

1-282-73833-X

1-4008-1153-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 pages)

Collana

Princeton paperbacks

Disciplina

338.4/7004

Soggetti

Computer industry - Government policy - Brazil

Computer industry - Government policy - India

Computer industry - Government policy - Korea (South)

Industrial policy - Brazil

Industrial policy - India

Industrial policy - Korea (South)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

States and Industrial Transformation -- A Comparative Institutional Approach -- States -- Roles and Sectors -- Promotion and Policing -- State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry -- The Rise of Local Firms -- The New Internationalization -- Lessons from Informatics -- Rethinking Embedded Autonomy.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to



society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."