The New Political Economy of Development: Integrated Theory and Asian Experience

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Impact of Regional Scope on Choice and Validity of Theory....Pages 7-9
Rationale and Implications of Historical Time....Pages 10-11
A Holistic Systems View....Pages 12-16
Total-System Behaviour: Principles and Propositions....Pages 17-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Basic Causal Linkages....Pages 37-39
Population Dynamics....Pages 40-58
Population Densities....Pages 59-65
Long-Run Capacity of Agriculture....Pages 66-74
Non-Renewable Resource Basis for Industrialisation....Pages 75-88
Carrying Capacity of the Ecosystem....Pages 89-98
Social Choice in a Finite World....Pages 99-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Dissected System Structure and Sectoral Relationships....Pages 111-113
A General Theory of Transition....Pages 114-120
In the Theoretical Mainstream....Pages 121-145
Against the Current....Pages 146-187
New Normative Directions of Socio-Economic Processes....Pages 188-239
Behavioural Stratum....Pages 240-262
Political Structure: Deterministic Forces and the Exogenously Determined ‘Energy for Change’....Pages 263-277
Conclusion....Pages 278-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-342