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The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Furner, Mary O. (Editor), Supple, Barry (Editor), Hamilton, Lee H. (Editor)
ISBN: 052152315X     ISBN-13: 9780521523158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $51.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: This book addresses an important but inadequately recognized dimension of the activities of the modern state--the role it plays in producing the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for economic policy making. Over time, governments in modern societies have assumed the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the economic well-being of their citizens and for protecting their competitive positions in the international economy. To perform their various coordinating functions effectively, and to maintain legitimacy, governments have found it necessary to rely on accurate information regarding economic conditions and trends, and on empirically based theories or models that allow officials to anticipate the economy's performance under specified conditions. The traditional assumption, which this collection of essays challenges, is that despite this profound dependence governments have generally acted as passive consumers of whatever ideas economists in the private sector and professions had to offer. This book brings together papers that reveal the ways in which modern states have helped to generate new economic knowledge and how that process interacts with economic changes, specific political institutions and ideological contexts.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Renaissance
- Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development
Dewey: 338.973
Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.04" W x 9.2" (1.61 lbs) 492 pages