The Divergent Dynamics of Economic Growth : Studies in Adaptive Economizing, Technological Change, and Economic Development (Hardcover)

Preface; Acknowledgments and comments; 1. The adaptive, evolutionary theory of divergent economic growth; Part I. Global Trends and Adaptive Economics: 2. Global trends, world models and human adaptation; 3. Adaptive economic theory and modeling; Part II. Technological Change in Agriculture and Industry: 4. The economics of technological change and the demise of the sharecropper; 5. Economic development as an adaptive process: a green revolution case study Richard H. Day and Inderjit Singh; 6. Industrial development and technological change Richard H. Day, Masatoshi Abe, Jon Nelson, William K. Tabb and Che Tsao; 7. An adaptive economizing analysis of Chinese enterprises under alternative reform regimes Richard H. Day, Zhigang Wang and Gang Zou; Part III. Epochal Development: 8. Economic development and migration Richard H. Day and Yiu-Kwan Fan; 9. Instability in the transition from manorialism: a classical analysis; 10. Do economies diverge? Economic development in the very long run Richard H. Day and Oleg Pavlov; Part IV. Toward a General Theory of Development: 11. Economics far from equilibrium; 12. The dialectical republic: toward a general theory of the coevolution of market and state; Index.