New Development Economics (Second Edition)

Author: Zhou Tianyong
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Publish Date: 2006-02-22
Features: This book elaborates on the scope, framework, and theoretical system of development economics. Its framework is structured as follows: economic development and economic growth; the factor structure of development—population, labor, and human capital, capital, ecology, environment, and resources, technology, etc.; the economic structure of development—agricultural modernization, industrialization, and changes in spatial structure; open development systems and states; the role of institutional factors in development; economic development regulation: government and market. In addition to absorbing mature theories of Western development economics, this book has two major features: (1) summarizing some development economic laws based on the actual economic development of China, supplementing the theoretical system of development economics; (2) conducting innovative research in explaining the errors of the traditional Todaro population mobility model in development economics, arguing for the trend of population concentration, and analyzing the economic reasons for the origin and formation of urban and urban network systems. Development economics in the 1950s was heavily influenced by government-led theories. Considering the return and reform of the global market economy system and the establishment of China's socialist market economy system, this book has made significant revisions to past content, embedding the neoclassical economic theory of resource allocation regulation by the market in the entire textbook. This book focuses on fundamental principles, knowledge, and the system of development economics, targeting undergraduate university students. Therefore, it includes fewer mathematical and physical models, making it easy to understand and teach.