A bias for hope : essays on development and Latin America
A bias for hope : essays on development and Latin America
by Albert O. Hirschman.
- New Haven Yale University Press 1971.
- ix, 374 p. ill. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Economics and investment planning: reflections based on experience in Colombia -- Economic development, research and development, and policy making: some converging views (with Charles E. Lindblom) -- The political economy of import-substituting ind ustrialization in Latin America -- Industrial development in the Brazilian Northeast and the tax credit scheme of Article 34/18 -- Primary products and substitutes: Should technological progress be policed? -- Abrazo versus coexistence -- Second thoughts on the alliance for progress -- Critical comments on foreign aid strategies -- The stability of neutralism -- Foreign aid: a critique and a proposal with Richard M. Bird -- How to divest in Latin America, and why -- Economic policy in underdeveloped countries -- Ideologies of economic development in Latin America -- Obstacles to development: a classification and a quasi-vanishing act -- Underdevelopment, obstacles to the perception of change, and leadership -- The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding.
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Economic assistance.
Economic development.
Dâeveloppement âeconomique.
Sozialer Wandel.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
Developing countries--Economic policy.
Latin America--Economic policy.
Amâerique latine--Conditions âeconomiques--1945-
Amâerique latine--Conditions sociales.
Amâerique latine--Politique âeconomique.
Lateinamerika.
HD82 / .H486 HC125 / .H53
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Economics and investment planning: reflections based on experience in Colombia -- Economic development, research and development, and policy making: some converging views (with Charles E. Lindblom) -- The political economy of import-substituting ind ustrialization in Latin America -- Industrial development in the Brazilian Northeast and the tax credit scheme of Article 34/18 -- Primary products and substitutes: Should technological progress be policed? -- Abrazo versus coexistence -- Second thoughts on the alliance for progress -- Critical comments on foreign aid strategies -- The stability of neutralism -- Foreign aid: a critique and a proposal with Richard M. Bird -- How to divest in Latin America, and why -- Economic policy in underdeveloped countries -- Ideologies of economic development in Latin America -- Obstacles to development: a classification and a quasi-vanishing act -- Underdevelopment, obstacles to the perception of change, and leadership -- The search for paradigms as a hindrance to understanding.
ISBN 0 300 01490 2 Pbk: ¹1.65.
0300014562 0300014902 (pbk.) 9780300014563 9780300014907 (pbk.)
Economic assistance.
Economic development.
Dâeveloppement âeconomique.
Sozialer Wandel.
Wirtschaftsentwicklung.
Developing countries--Economic policy.
Latin America--Economic policy.
Amâerique latine--Conditions âeconomiques--1945-
Amâerique latine--Conditions sociales.
Amâerique latine--Politique âeconomique.
Lateinamerika.
HD82 / .H486 HC125 / .H53