Overview
- Shows the importance of distribution of assets and incomes in explaining the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in an underdeveloped economy
- Focuses on the significance of political-economic factors, along with conventional issues, such as those related to technical progress and the vicious cycle of poverty
- Explains how it is possible to develop a more comprehensive package of policies in which Government and NGOs can fruitfully intervene
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
The book explains the problem of insufficient capital accumulation and growth in a less developed country. In conventional analyses, such explanations are often found exogenised in terms of factors such as socio-cultural attitudes towards saving and investment, irrationality of peasant behaviour, technological aspects of externalities and demographic parameters. This book provides an alternative explanation in terms of distribution of income and assets.
Focusing on the agricultural sector of a developing economy, it describes how this approach can be extended to cover the industrial sector as well. Further, it develops a model that is then used to analyse the specific problem of capital accumulation in agriculture.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Asim K. Dasgupta was Minister of Finance (1987-88 to 2010-11) in the Government of West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D in Economics with a Widrow Wilson Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), USA in 1975. He also taught at the College of Business Administration, Boston University (1973-74) and at the Department of Economics, University of Calcutta, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Income Distribution, Market Imperfections and Capital Accumulation in a Developing Economy
Authors: Asim K. Dasgupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1633-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1632-6Published: 23 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1633-3Published: 13 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 78
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Economics, Economic Growth, Labor Economics, Urban Economics, Population Economics
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking