Ragnar Nurkse: Trade and Development

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Rainer Kattel, Jan A. Kregel, Erik S. Reinert
Anthem Press, 2011 - Business & Economics - 504 pages

Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1959) was one of the most important pioneers of development economics, and although his writings have been neglected in recent decades, leading development economists and international organizations such the United Nations are now turning to Nurkse in search for new inspiration, due to the failure of neoclassical economics to adequately explain the experience of poor and developing countries. Until now, however, all Nurkse's published works were out of print, and the most recent editions stem from the early 1960s.

'Ragnar Nurkse, Trade and Development' reprints Nukse's most important works, making them widely available for an audience of economists, policy makers, researchers and students. The works reprinted here include two essays never printed before in this format: 'Growth in Underdeveloped Countries', (1952) and 'International Trade Theory and Development Policy' (1957), as well as the collected essays from 'Equilibrium and Growth in the World Economy' (1961), and the monograph 'Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries' (1953).

 

Contents

Causes and Effects of Capital Movements 1934
1
The Schematic Representation of the Structure
15
for Economic Stability 1947
73
Countries 1953
99
United States Balance of Payments 1954
237
The Relation between Home Investment and External Balance
261
Reflections on Indias Development Plan 1957
315
Balanced and Unbalanced Growth 195 7
329
International Trade Theory and Development Policy 195 7
359
Trade Fluctuations and Buffer Policies of Lowincome
385
Patterns of Trade and Development 1959
397
Notes
435
Bibliography of Ragnar Nurkse
475
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