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CONCENTRATING on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book has illustrated that the analysis of economic development must embrace perspectives still unconventional to economics as a modern academic discipline, but common enough to students of economic history, social history and technological change. In particular, analyses of the bounded rationality of economic agents, of knowledge or information, of institutions and of technology, might be at the centre of the study of the development process.1 All of these are themes introduced in Chapter 1 and illustrated at various points throughout this book. The present chapter expands on some of these themes through brief consideration of research and development, institutional structures, technology transfer mechanisms and alternative patterns of development in the twentieth century.
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Ian Inkster, ‘Appropriate Technology, Alternative Technology and the Chinese Model: Terminology and Analysis’, Annals of Science, 46 (1989), pp. 263–76.
R. Baum (ed.), China’s Four Modernisations (Boulder, 1980); K. Reiitsu, ‘The Bearers of Science and Technology have Changed’, Modern China, 5 (1979), pp. 187–230.
C. Norman, ‘A New Push for a Federal Science Department’, Science, 226 (December 1984), 1398–9; J. A. Remington, ‘Beyond Big Science in America: The Binding of Inquiry’, Social Studies of Science, 18 (1988), pp. 45–72.
At several points Gary Saxonhouse has argued (quite convincingly) that government industrial targeting is not as important to high technology development as is at times claimed and that much of government economic intervention merely substitutes for the demonstrable lack of competitiveness and market-induced information dispersal found in Japan. Gary R. Saxonhouse, ‘What is All this About “Industrial Targeting” in Japan?’, The World Economy, 6, no. 3 (1983), pp. 253–73.
See the theoretical perspectives in Andre Gunder Frank, Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution (New York, 1969), esp. Chapter 1; I. Wallerstein, ‘The State and Social Transformation’, Politics and Society, I (1971), pp. 359–64
J. Saravanamuttu, ‘The Political Economy of Japan’s Involvement in ASEAN: Some Theoretical and Policy Implications’, East Asia 3 (1985), pp. 169–93.
Kwan-Chi Oh, ‘Korea as a Market for Technology’, East Asia 3 (1985), pp. 25–56.
Andras Hernadi, ‘Export-Oriented Industrialisation and its Successes in the Asia-Pacific Region’, East Asia 3 (1985), p. 3.
Kwan-Chi Oh, ‘Korea as a Market for Technology’, East Asia 3 (1985), pp. 25–56.
Ian Inkster, ‘On Modelling Japan for the Third World (Part One)’, East Asia 1 (1983), pp. 155–87, esp. pp. 171–80.
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Inkster, I. (1991). Twentieth-Century Aftermaths: Science, Technology and Economic Development. In: Science and Technology in History. Themes in Comparative History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21339-9_11
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