TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adam Leszczyński
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3528
SN  - 9783653048865
TI  - Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980
DO  - 10.3726/b10801
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048890
N2  - This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of the market» as a panacea for underdevelopment. He focuses not only on the genesis of underdevelopment, but also on the causes of popularity of economic planning, and the advent of neoliberalism in the discourse of development economics. This book evaluates the power of state as a vehicle of progress and focuses in detail on the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Korea.
KW  - Political economy of development, Economic planning, Developing countries in 20th century, 20th century history, History of Poland, Economic underdevelopment
LA  - English
ER  -