Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy series) - Hardcover

Coyne, Christopher J.; Leeson, Peter T.

 
9781847204783: Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1847204783 ISBN 13: 9781847204783
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development.

The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects a country's ability to prosper. The authors identify specific media-related policies governments of underdeveloped countries should adopt if they want to grow. They illustrate why media freedom is a critical ingredient in the recipe of economic development and why even the best-intentioned state involvement in media is more likely to slow prosperity than to enhance it.

Scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology; policy-makers, analysts and others in the development community; and academics in media studies will find this book insightful and provocative.

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About the Author

Christopher J. Coyne, Mercatus Center and Department of Economics and Peter T. Leeson, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law, Department of Economics, George Mason University, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1847204783
ISBN 13 
9781847204783
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192