Embedded Autonomy

States and Industrial Transformation

By: Peter B. Evans

Write A Review

Paperback | 17 May 1995

At a Glance

Paperback
344 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
23.4 x 15.2 x 235

Paperback

RRP $110.00

$84.75

23%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $21.19 with

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

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."

Industry Reviews

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

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Business & Management Economics Political Economy Engineering & Technology Technology in General History of Engineering & Technology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Development Economics & Emerging Economies Accounting & Finance

Finance Public Accounting in Finance Politics & Government Central Government

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
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Embedded Autonomy

States and Industrial Transformation

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Political Economy

The Nerd Reich

Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

Unshackled

How Economic Growth Can Defeat the World's Dictators

Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Toward a Critique of Neoliberal Ideology in Late Capitalism

Financial Psychedelia and the Commons

In Common

Closing the Institutional Gap

How Foreign Investors Shape Domestic Institutions in Emerging Markets

Closing the Institutional Gap

How Foreign Investors Shape Domestic Institutions in Emerging Markets

Post-War Planning on the Periphery

Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 19391945

Battling the Board

Shareholder Activism, Sustainability, and Social Movements in Australia

Climate Fault Lines

The New Political Economy of a Warming World

Overshoot

How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

The Sovereign Individual

Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Hillbilly Elegy

The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump's Future Vice-President of the United States

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Muskism

A Guide for the Perplexed

Coming Up Short

a memoir of my America

Escape From Capitalism

Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths

Less is More

How Degrowth Will Save the World

Minority Rule

Adventures in the Culture War - the instant Sunday Times bestseller

The Story of Capital

What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

The Road to Serfdom

Routledge Classics

Good Economics for Hard Times

Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Rigged

How networks of powerful mates rip off everyday Australians

This product is categorised by