Leading Issues In Economic Development 7/E

Gerald Marvin Meier

Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Mar 31, 2000 - Business & Economics - 578 pages

Now in its seventh edition,Leading Issues in Economic Developmentintroduces a new co-author, James E. Rauch. Maintaining the unique structure that the book has established over the last 35 years, Rauch has revised and updated this seventh edition to strengthen the analytical and quantitative dimensions and to clarify contemporary and future problems of development policy. The co-authors integrate the most insightful materials in this wide-ranging field, offering students the opportunity to experience a variety of perspectives while helping them to keep sight of overarching themes. This edition adds two new chapters: "Income Distribution" and "Development and the Environment." It also now consolidates several chapters and increases the number of selections from leading professional journals. In this edition, both the selections and the authors' own overviews, notes, comments, and exhibits make greater use of empirical analysis as well as modern economic theory. In all,Leading Issues in Economic Developmentprovides fresh and serious attention to the interplay between development experience, changing views of economists, and policy.

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User Review  - Malaika - Goodreads

I'm about a quarter of the way through it. So far, it's a fair and comprehensive overview of economic development thought. It's missing the depth and insight that I would expect though. For example ...

About the author

Gerald M. Meier, Konosuke Matsusita Professor of International Economics and Policy Analysis, Stanford University. James E. Rauch, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Leading Issues In Economic Development 7/E
• Author: Gerald Marvin Meier
• Editors: Gerald Marvin Meier, James E. Raunch
• Contributors: Gerald Marvin Meier, James E. Raunch
• Edition: 7, illustrated
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000
• ISBN: 0195115899, 9780195115895
• Length: 578 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Business & Economics / Economics / General