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 handbook (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. The set of analyses and reflections presented here try to endow each subject with depth and discovery.

SOMMARIO

1 - Economics as an African Science: An Epistemological Analysis2 - 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 the African Context18 - 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 - The Public Private Interface29 - Natural Resources: Precious Boon or Precious Ban?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 - African Monetary Unions: An Obituary36 - The Impact of Democracy on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1982-201237 - The Economics of Authoritarianism in North Africa38 - The Potential Economic Dividends of North African Revolutions39 - The Economics of Violent Conflict and War in Africa40 - The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism in Africa41 - The Political Economy of the New Arab Awakening42 - Democratic Decentralization and Economic Development43 - The Economics of Happiness and Anger in North Africa

AUTORE

C'elestin Monga is Managing Director at the United a Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He previously worked as senior advisor and program director at the World Bank and has held various board and senior positions in academia and financial services. A graduate of MIT, Harvard, and the universities of Paris 1 Panth'eon-Sorbonne, Bordeaux and Pau, Dr Monga was the Economics editor for the 5-volume New Encyclopedia of Africa (Charles Scribner's, 2007). His published works have been translated into multiple languages. 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: 9780199687114
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 253 x 51.2 x 181 mm Ø 1620 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: Figures and Tables
• Pagine Arabe: 864