Ragnar Nurkse

Trade and Development

Edited by Rainer Kattel, Jan A. Kregel, Erik S. Reinert

Publication date:

01 August 2009

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781843317876

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

‘Ragnar Nurkse, Trade and Development’ is a timely reprint of Nurkse’s most important works, given the renewed interest in his writings amongst development economists, who are turning to this pioneering thinker in search for new inspiration. This volume aims to make his rarely published works available for an audience of economists, policy makers, researchers and students.

Preface; Introduction; Causes and Effects of Capital Movements; The Schematic Representation of the Structure of Production; Conditions of International Monetary Equilibrium; Domestic and International Equilibrium; International Monetary Policy and the Search for Economic Stability; Growth in Underdeveloped Countries; Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries; Period Analysis and Inventory Cycles; A New Look at the Dollar Problem and the United States Balance of Payments; International Investment Today in the Light of 19th Century Experience; The Relation between Home Investment and External Balance in the Light of British Experience, 1945-1955; Reflections on India’s Development Plan; Balanced and Unbalanced Growth; International Trade Theory and Development Policy; Trade Fluctuations and Buffer Policies of Low-Income Countries; Patterns of Trade and Development; Bibliography of Ragnar Nurkse