Social Change, Economic Development

Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction

Name: Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development: An Introduction
Author: Adam Szirmai
ISBN: 9780521817639

by Adam Szirmai

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Overview

Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in nutrition, health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This modern, non-technical introduction to development economics takes a quantitative and comparative approach to contemporary debates, examining historical, institutional, demographic, sociological, political, cultural and ecological factors. Chapters contain comparative statistics from twenty-nine developing countries and assume no prior knowledge of economics.

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A modern, non-technical textbook introduction to development economics with emphasis on historical and political context.

About the Author, Adam Szirmai

Adam Szirmai is Professor of Technology and Development Studies at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and one of the founders of the Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies.

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"This monumental study is historically grounded, balanced, nuanced, rigorous, eclectic, and reader-friendly. All serious scholars and practitioners of economic development will want to have a copy on their shelves. The volume is also ideally suited as a text for a development economics course." --Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University