Escape from Empire
The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2009
Summary
A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.
The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of econo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513159 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262513153 |
| Author: | Alice H. Amsden |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Escape from Empire |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A valuable contribution to the appraisal of international development disappointments, not least because of the meticulous analysis of American economic foreign policy in the twentieth century.
* Political Studies Review *Alice H. Amsden
Alice H. Amsden was Barton T. Weller Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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