The elusive quest for growth为增长逃避探求：经济学家在热带地区的幸与不幸
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作者： William Easterly著
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出版时间： 2002-8-1字数：版次： 1页数： 342印刷时间： 2002/08/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780262550420包装： 平装内容简介
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work.
In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people--private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors--respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.
目录
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Quest
I Why Growth Matters
1 To Help the Poor
Intermezzo: In Search of a River
II Panaceas That Failed
2 Aid for Investment
Intermezzo: Parmila
3 Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth
Intermezzo: Dry Cornstalks
4 Educated for What?
Intermezzo: Without a Refuge
5 Cash for Condoms?
Intermezzo: Tomb Paintings
6 The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't
Intermezzo: Leila's Story
7 Forgive Us Our Debts
Intermezzo: Cardboard House
III People Respond to Incentives
8 Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps
Intermezzo: War and Memory
9 Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology
Intermezzo: Accident in Jamaica
10 Under an Evil Star
Intermezzo: Favela Life
11 Governments Can Kill Growth
Intermezzo: Florence and Veronica
12 Corruption and Growth
Intermezzo: Discrimination in Palanpur
13 Polarized Peoples
Intermezzo: Violent for Centuries
14 Conclusion: The View from Lahore
Notes
References and Further Reading
Index
