Embedded Autonomy

States and Industrial Transformation

By: Peter B. Evans

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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 nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which 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 that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

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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

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List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
States and Industrial Transformation	p. 3
A Comparative Institutional Approach	p. 21
States	p. 43
Roles and Sectors	p. 74
Promotion and Policing	p. 99
State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry	p. 128
The Rise of Local Firms	p. 155
The New Internationalization	p. 181
Lessons from Informatics	p. 207
Rethinking Embedded Autonomy	p. 227
Notes	p. 251
References	p. 287
Index	p. 311
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