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Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
Peter B. Evans
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Description for Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
Paperback. Offers a vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. This book demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society - "embedded autonomy"�'. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JPQ; KCM; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing ... Read more
In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691037363
SKU
V9780691037363
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Ref
99-1
About Peter B. Evans
Peter Evans, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational State and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton).
Reviews for Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995 "This carefully researched and well-written book is an important addition to development literature."
Choice "Evans establishes himself once again as an indisputable leader of the development field. This book represents the finest example of the comparative institutional analysis of the state's role in economic transformation in the contemporary world."
Journal of Sociology
Choice "Evans establishes himself once again as an indisputable leader of the development field. This book represents the finest example of the comparative institutional analysis of the state's role in economic transformation in the contemporary world."
Journal of Sociology