Institutions, Technology, and Circular and Cumulative Causation in Economics [Paperback]

The book investigates the relation between technology and institutions and their mutual influence during processes of development and change and illustrates this on the development process in Argentina after 1946. General and case-study specific policy recommendations are offered.1. Introduction PART I: CONCEPTS OF AND MODELS FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS 2. Neoclassical Growth Models and Economic Development  3. Exogenous Growth Models  4. Endogenous Growth Models  5. Discussion  6. The 'High Theory of Development'  7. General Outline of Development Economics 8. Big Push, Balanced Growth, and Unbalanced Growth, and the Dual Economy  9. Discussion 10. New Institutional Economics  11. NIE  Collective Action Problems  12. NIE  Transaction Costs  13. Discussion  14. Original Institutional Economics  15. Veblen's Foundations for an Institutional Economics 16. Developments in the OIE Body of Theory  17. Institutions  18. Technology 19. Circular and Cumulative Causations  20. Discussion  21. Summary PART II: THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: INSTITUTIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND CIRCULAR AND CUMULATIVE CAUSATION 22. A Categorization of Growth and Development Effects 23. An Evolutionary-Institutional Model of Economic Development  24. Institutions and Economic Development  25. Technology  Skills  26. Technology  Equipment 27.Integrating the Principal Influence Factors in Processes of Development and Change  28. Case Studies based on an Evolutionary-Institutional Model of Economic Development PART III: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ARGENTINA AFTER 1946 29. Macroeconomic and Sectoral Development after 1946  30. Macroeconomic Development: General Growth Performance  31. Macroeconomic Development: Investment  32. Macroeconomic Development: Fiscal Accl³ª