How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

2002

Level: avancé

Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press

Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of the 1990s giving rise to real social outcry to the extent that they became the object of central government policy reformulations.

2015

Level: avancé

Social Economy in China and the World

Ngai Pun, Ben Hok-bun Ku, Hairong Yan, Anita Koo

Taylor & Francis Ltd

This course is part of the SDG initiative addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, specifically for the following SDGs [1, 8, 10 and 16].

Level: débutant

Political Economy of Institutions and Development

Richard Thomas Griffiths

Universiteit Leiden

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2019

Level: avancé

Pluriverse

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, Alberto Acosta

Tulika Books

In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows neoliberal thinkers from the Habsburg Empire’s fall to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to deploy them globally to protect capitalism.

2020

Level: débutant

Globalists

Quinn Slobodian

Harvard University Press

In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail.

2013

Level: débutant

Rethinking Capitalist Development

Kalyan Sanyal

Routledge

If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators, can we ever grasp how the world’s billions of individuals are really managing?

2011

Level: avancé

Creating Capabilities

Martha Craven Nussbaum

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press