The Growth of Nations: Culture, Competitiveness and the Problem of Globalization - Softcover

Lewis, Mark C.; Fitzgerald, Robert; Harvey, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0951376241 ISBN 13: 9780951376249

Publisher: Bristol Academic Press, 1996

Synopsis

Amongst the central economic realities of the post-war world are the unprecedented economic growth rates of most nations, the increased integration of the world economy and the globalization of industrial activity, and the rise to international industrial competitiveness of Japan and East Asia. Vast literatures have grown up in the areas of growth accounting, globalization and Far Eastern studies, reflecting the preoccupation of economists and management specialists with each of these three central issues. But the very existence of such large separate literatures indicates that these issues have often been examined as discrete phenomena.

The organizing principle of The Growth of Nations is that these apparently disparate issues are in fact intimately connected. The authors link the themes of culture, economic growth and globalization in an original manner. They are most immediately concerned with the empirical question of the role played by culture in national economic performance, and sets out to refute the culturalist hypothesis of East Asian development. More generally, they contribute to the wider theoretical debate over the causes of economic growth in a globalizing world.

The Growth of Nations will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of management and economics, and all those interested in the foundations of national economic growth in the post-war era

Edition details

• Publisher: Bristol Academic Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0951376241
• ISBN 13: 9780951376249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220