The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

NOTE EDITORE

For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development economics itself was not always fashionable, and the broader discipline of economics has had its ups and downs, and has been undergoing a major identity crisis because it failed to predict the Great Recession. Times have changed: many leading researchers-including a few Nobel laureates-have taken the subject of Africa and economics seriously enough to devote their expertise and creativity to it. They have been amply rewarded: the richness, complexities, and subtleties of African societies, civilizations, rationalities, and ways of living, have helped renew the humanities and the social sciences-and economics in particular-to the point that the continent has become the next major intellectual frontier to researchers from around the world. In collecting some of the most authoritative statements about the science of economics and its concepts in the African context, this ^lhandbook (the first of two volumes) opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on exciting topics, and in the process challenges and stimulates the quest for knowledge. Wide-ranging in its scope, themes, language, and approaches, this volume explores, examines, and assesses economic thinking on Africa, and Africa's contribution to the discipline. The editors bring a set of powerful resources to this endeavor, most notably a team of internationally-renowned economists whose diverse viewpoints are complemented by the perspectives of philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.

SOMMARIO

1 - Prolegomena to Economics as an African Science: A Philosophical Meditation2 - Households and Income in Africa3 - Transformation of African Farm-cum-Family Structures4 - The Economics of Marriage in North Africa: A Unifying Theoretical Framework5 - The Theory of the Firm in the African Context6 - Markets and Urban Provisioning7 - Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Africa's Missing Middle8 - Employment, Unemployment, and Underemployment in Africa9 - Inclusive Growth in Africa10 - Poverty: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives11 - Dimensions of African Inequality12 - Inclusive Growth and Developmental Governance: The Next African Frontiers13 - Economics and the Study of Corruption in Africa14 - Thoughts on Development: The African Experience15 - The Idea of Economic Development: Views from Africa16 - Principles of Economics: African Challenges17 - Economics and Culture in Africa18 - The Economics of Non-Cognitive Skills19 - Modeling African Economies: A DSGE Approach20 - Measuring Economic Progress in the African Context21 - Measuring Structural Economic Vulnerability in Africa22 - Measuring Democracy: An Economic Approach23 - Measurement and Analysis of Competitiveness24 - Africa's New Economic Opportunities25 - Tigers or Tiger Prawns? The African Growth 'Tragedy' and 'Renaissance' in Perspective26 - The Economic Legacies of the African Slave Trades27 - The Economics of Colonialism in Africa28 - Public-Private Interface for Inclusive Development in Africa29 - Natural Resources in Africa: Precious Boon or Precious Bane?30 - Volatility and Vulnerability31 - Africa's Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities32 - Environmental and Climate Change Issues in Africa33 - Informality, Growth and Development in Africa34 - Capitalism and African Business Cultures35 - The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-201236 - The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa37 - The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions38 - The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa39 - The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa40 - The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening41 - Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development42 - The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa

AUTORE

Célestin Monga is Vice-President and Chief Economist of the African Development Bank Group. He previously served as Managing Director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Senior Economic Adviser-Director at the World Bank. He is also a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Peking University. Dr. Monga has published extensively on various dimensions of economic and political development. His books have been translated into several languages and are widely used as teaching tools in academic institutions around the world. His most recent works include Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries (Princeton University Press, 2017), with Justin Yifu Lin; and Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa (Harvard University Press, 2016). Dr. Monga holds graduate degrees from MIT, Harvard University, the Universities of Paris and Pau. Justin Yifu Lin is Councillor of the State Council and Professor and Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Professor Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference, and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198819707
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 245 x 44.1 x 169 mm Ø 1468 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: Figures and Tables
• Pagine Arabe: 864