The New Political Economy of Development [electronic resource] : Integrated Theory and Asian Experience

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Introduction....Pages 1-3 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Impact of Regional Scope on Choice and Validity of Theory....Pages 7-9 Rationale and Implications of Historical Time....Pages 10-11 A Holistic Systems View....Pages 12-16 Total-System Behaviour: Principles and Propositions....Pages 17-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Basic Causal Linkages....Pages 37-39 Population Dynamics....Pages 40-58 Population Densities....Pages 59-65 Long-Run Capacity of Agriculture....Pages 66-74 Non-Renewable Resource Basis for Industrialisation....Pages 75-88 Carrying Capacity of the Ecosystem....Pages 89-98 Social Choice in a Finite World....Pages 99-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Dissected System Structure and Sectoral Relationships....Pages 111-113 A General Theory of Transition....Pages 114-120 In the Theoretical Mainstream....Pages 121-145 Against the Current....Pages 146-187 New Normative Directions of Socio-Economic Processes....Pages 188-239 Behavioural Stratum....Pages 240-262 Political Structure: Deterministic Forces and the Exogenously Determined ‘Energy for Change’....Pages 263-277 Conclusion....Pages 278-279 Back Matter....Pages 281-342