TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Missaglia, Marco
AU  - Vaggi, Gianni 
TI  - Introduction to development economics: an alternative approach to growth, sustainability and cooperation
SN  - 9783031679254
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Switzerland
PB  - Springer
KW  - Development economics
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Sustainability--Economic aspects
N1  - Front Matter
Pages i-xxvii
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Introduction: About Human and Sustainable Development?
Marco Missaglia, Gianni Vaggi
Pages 1-5
Facts, Definitions, and Goals
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Pages 7-7
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People: Human Beings in Space and Time
Marco Missaglia, Gianni Vaggi
Pages 9-27
Prosperity
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Pages 29-51
From Economic Growth to Sustainability
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Pages 53-70
A Changing Economic Scenario
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Pages 71-88
Theories of Economic Development and Growth
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Pages 89-89
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Production and Distribution of Wealth; the Founding Fathers
Marco Missaglia, Gianni Vaggi
Pages 91-104
Solow and Swan’s Growth Theory: An Already Mature Economy
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Pages 105-116
Dualism, Development, Growth and Structural Change: Arthur Lewis Comes Back
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Pages 117-128
Development and Increasing Returns: The Teaching of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and Albert Hirschman, and the Role of the Bourgeoisie
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Pages 129-140
Convergence, Divergence, and Endogenous Growth: Does Globalization Work?
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Pages 141-154
Keynes in the Tropics. The Importance of History and Aggregate Demand in the Processes of Growth and Development
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Pages 155-167
Macroeconomics and Structure. Mickael Kalecki’s Lessons and Gap Models
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Pages 169-185
Development in the Global Economy
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Pages 187-187
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Trade, Finance, and the Environment in the “center-periphery” Models. Raul Prebish, CEPAL and Today’s World
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Pages 189-203
Finance and Development
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Pages 205-230
Toward Human and Sustainable Development
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Pages 231-247
The Road to Dignity
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Pages 249-264
Back Matter
Pages 265-278
N2  - This textbook provides an introduction to development economics that examines both the drivers of economic growth and sustainable development. It initially presents development economics within a historical and political context, before widening its attention to theories of growth and development, the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals, the imbalance of power between the Global North and South, global development policies, and the role of international finance in development. Rather than focusing primarily on neoclassical growth theories, qualitative and quantitative aspects of the development process are both highlighted.

This book aims to give readers a broad understanding of the economic drivers of development and the economic theories that underpin them. It will be relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in development economics and sustainable development. (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67926-1?page=2#toc)
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