The Nature of Economic Growth: An Alternative Framework for Understanding the Performance of Nations

by A.P. P. Thirlwall

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author presents conventional wisdom with a critical eye and charts development economics as it has evolved from Adam Smith to 'new' or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840648643
• ISBN13: 9781840648645
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages