Christopher Cramer

D.G. Truhlar

For the New Century Issue of the journal "Theroretical Chemistry Accounts" the advisory editors identified papers from the first century of theoretical chemistry and discussed their importance for the twentieth century with an eye towards the twenty-first century. Sixty-six such perspectives are published in the New Century Issue. To make this unique collection available to younger scientists for entertaining reading and re-reading of the original publications, the publisher decided to reprint a special edition of the issue.

New Century Issue

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts

Ha-Joon Chang

Richard Kozul-Wright

Arkebe Oqubay

Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested perspectives, reflecting ideologically inflected debates and shifts in prevailing ideas. There has lately been a renewed interest in industrial policy in academic circles and international policy dialogues, prompted by the weak outcomes of policies pursued by many developing countries under the direction of the Washington Consensus (and its descendants), the slow economic recovery of many advanced economies after the 2008 global financial crisis, and mounting anxieties about the national consequences of globalization. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy presents a comprehensive review of and a novel approach to the conceptual and theoretical foundations of industrial policy. The Handbook also presents analytical perspectives on how industrial policy connects to broader issues of development strategy, macro-economic policies, infrastructure development, human capital, and political economy. By combining historical and theoretical perspectives, and integrating conceptual issues with empirical evidence drawn from advanced, emerging, and developing countries, The Handbook offers valuable lessons and policy insights to policymakers, practitioners and researchers on developing productive transformation, technological capabilities, and international competitiveness. It addresses pressing issues including climate change, the gendered dimensions of industrial policy, global governance, and technical change. Written by leading international thinkers on the subject, the volume pulls together different perspectives and schools of thought from neo-classical to structuralist development economists to discuss and highlight the adaptation of industrial policy in an ever-changing socio-economic and political landscape.

The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy

John Sender

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Unevenness and inequalities form a central fact of African economic experiences. This book challenges conventional wisdoms about economic performance and possible policies for economic development in African countries, using the striking variation in economic performance as a starting point. African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy highlights not only difference between countries, but also variation within countries. It focuses on issues relating to gender, class, and ethnic identity, such as neo-natal mortality, school dropout, and horticultural and agribusiness exports. Variations in these areas point to opportunities for changing perfomance, reducing reducing inequalities, learning from other policy experiences, and escaping the ties of structure and the legacies of a colonial past. African Economic Development rejects teleological illusions and Eurocentric prejudice, criticizing a range of orthodox and heterodox economists for their cavalier attitude to evidence. Instead, it shows that seeing the contradictions of capitalism for what they are - fundamental and enduring - may help policy officials protect themselves against the misleading idea that development can be expected to be a smooth, linear process, or that it would be if certain impediments were removed. Drawing on decades of research and policy experience, this book combines careful use of available evidence from a range of African countries with economic insights to make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment.

Evidence, Theory, and Policy

African Economic Development

Peter Lawrence

Santamaría Antonio

Edward Lahiff

Carlos Oya

John B. Sender

Eduardo Bidaurratzaga

Bill Freund

John Weeks

La presente obra constituye una aportación necesaria al estudio de las realidades sociales, económicas y políticas del África Subsahariana, gran desconocida en la opinión pública y en los ámbitos académicos españoles, pero objeto de una atención mediática creciente. La realidad del continente africano es compleja y tiene su propio recorrido histórico. Como se muestra en este libro, hablar de África como «un todo» es un gran error. Pionero en el panorama editorial en castellano sobre el desarrollo económico en África, el libro hace frente a varios mitos presentes en la literatura económica convencional sobre África, y desde un enfoque de economía política desarrolla visiones alternativas en torno a tres ejes principales: la necesidad del conocimiento histórico, la diversidad del subcontinente y la importancia de las combinaciones únicas de factores externos e internos en el desarrollo de los países que conforman lo que se conoce por «África». Si bien está pensado para introducir al lector en la compleja realidad socioeconómica y política africana, también aporta una significativa variedad y profundidad de conocimientos, desde perspectivas analíticas heterodoxas. Sus autores, economistas españoles y extranjeros con una notable reputación académica en los estudios sobre el desarrollo económico en África Subsahariana, tienen en común una perspectiva analítica de economía política, una preocupación por el largo plazo y un especial cuidado con la calidad y la fiabilidad de la información empírica disponible.

Economía política del desarrollo en África

Christopher Cramer

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