Ideas in the History of Economic Development The Case of Peripheral Countries

This edited volume examines the relationship between economic ideas, economic policies and development institutions, analysing the cases of 11 peripheral countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the obstacles that have prevented the sustained economic growth of these countries and examines the origins of national and regional approaches to development. The chapters present a fascinating insight into the ideas and visions in the different locations, with the overarching categories of economic nationalism and economic liberalism and how they have influenced development outcomes. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of development economics, the history of economic thought and economic history.

List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors IntroductionEstrella Trincado, Andrés Lazzarini and Denis Melnik Part IEurope 1 Degrees of abstraction in development economicsVladimir Avtonomov2 Debates on Development in the Spanish economy, 1848-1960Elena Gallego and Estrella Trincado3 Development economics in PortugalCarlos Bastien and Ana Bela Nunes4 Italian economists, paradigmatic revolutions and development issues in Italy in the last quarter of the nineteenth centurySimona Pisanelli5 Soviet development model: A history of interpretationsDenis Melnik6 Development issues in the Economic Thought of the European Periphery: The Case of Bulgaria from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth centuryPencho D. Pechev Part IIAsia7 Chinese debates on economic development in the 1920s-1940sOlga Borokh8 ‘Old’ Chinese debates on economic development: Not only Chinese, and not so oldClara García9 Indian Nationalism: Asian context, interwar years and Nehruvian StatebuildingManuel Gonzalo and Eduardo Crespo10 Economic Development and Economics in Japan, 1870-1940Jou Ishii Part IIILatin America11 From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism in Latin AmericaMatías Vernengo12 Redistribution, Growth, Structural Change and Dollarization: Understanding Ecuadorian perspectivesMarco Missaglia13 The Politics of Economic Development: Latin America Through the Eyes of Albert O. HirschmanAndrés M. Guiot-Isaac14 An Alternative Demand-Led, Structuralist Interpretation of the Economic ‘Golden Era’ in Argentina (1870-1930)Fabián Amico and Numa Mazat15 The rise and fall of economic development preoccupations in Argentina and the turn toward neoliberalism in the 1970sAndrés Lazzarini and Gabriel Brondino16 The place of institutions in Latin American development: From Prebisch to Dependency Theory and beyondRoberto Lampa Index

Estrella Trincado is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Andres Lazzarini is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Denis Melnik is Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia.