Last edition Elsevier An approach to comparative economic systems that avoids simple dichotomies to examine a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, with updated country case studies. Comparative economics, with its traditional dichotomies of socialism versus capitalism, private versus state, and planning versus market, is changing. This innovative textbook offers a new approach to understanding different economic systems that reflects both recent transformations in the world economy and recent changes in the field.This new edition examines a wide variety of institutional and systemic arrangements, many of which reflect deep roots in countries’ cultures and histories.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9780262037334
Imprint: MIT Press Massachusets Institute
Language: English
Authors: J. Barkley Rosser
Pub Date: 01/2018
Pages: 744
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 2,320.000 grams
Size: h 178 X 229 mm
Product Type: Hardcover
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- • The book has been updated and revised throughout, with new material in both the historical overview and the country case studies.
- • It offers a broad survey of economic systems, then looks separately at market capitalism, Marxism and socialism, and "new traditional economies" (with an emphasis on the role of religions, Islam in particular, in economic systems).
- • It presents case studies of advanced capitalist nations, including the United States, Japan, Sweden, and Germany; alternative paths in the transition from socialist to market economies taken by such countries as Russia, the former Soviet republics, Poland, China, and the two Koreas; and developing countries, including India, Iran, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil.
- • The new chapters on Brazil and South Africa complete the book's coverage of all five BRICS nations; the chapter on South Africa extends the book's comparative treatment to another continent.
- • The chapter on Brazil with its account of the role of the Amazon rain forest as a great carbon sink expands the coverage of global environmental and sustainability issues. Each chapter ends with discussion questions.
- J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., is Professor of Economics at James Madison University.
- • Contents
- • Preface to the Third Edition of Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy
- • I OVERVIEW OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
- • 1 How Do We Compare Economies?
- • 2 The Theory and Practice of Market Capitalism
- • 3 The Theory and History of Marxism and Socialism
- • 4 Islamic Economics and the Economics of Other Religions
- • II VARIETIES OF ADVANCED MARKET CAPITALISM
- • 5 The United States of America: The Market Capitalist Leader
- • 6 Japan: Can A Former Planned New Traditional Market Economy Thrive?
- • 7 France: State-Directed Dirigisme in a Free Market World
- • 8 Sweden: Crisis and Reform of the Capitalist Welfare State
- • 9 The Unification of Germany and the Unification of Europe
- • III VARIETIES OF TRANSITION AMONG SOCIALIST ECONOMIES: FROM ALMOST NO CHANGE TO NEARLY TOTAL CHANGE
- • 10 The Myth and Reality of the Soviet Command Economy and Russia’s Economic Transition
- • 11 Post-Soviet States: Alternative Paths of Transition and Divergent Models of Market Economies
- • 12 Poland: A Success Story of Economic Transition?
- • 13 China’s Socialist Market Economy: The Sleeping Giant Wakes
- • 14 North and South Korea: The Lingering Shadow of the Cold War
- • IV ALTERNATIVE PATHS AMONG DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
- • 15 India: The Elephant Walks
- • 16 Iran: The Struggle for a New Traditional Islamic Economy
- • 17 South Africa: Systemic Choice and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- • 18 Mexico: Revolution and Reform
- • 19 Brazil: The Search for Sustainable Developmentand Socioeconomic Equality
- • Glossary
- • Index
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