In terms of output, the USSR and Japan account for one-fifth of the world's economy, occupying second and third places behind the United States. Japan has the world's fastest growth of per capita income and the USSR has not lagged far behind. But a century ago they were static feudal societies. This study analyzes the policies which enabled them to transform their economies adn to catch up with the developed world. The strategies of the two nations adopted have been very different: Japan has maintained small farms and factories, developed a labor-intensive technology, and has successfully penetrated the world export markets. The USSR, on the other hand, has created giant farms and factories adn remained fairly isolated from world trade. Since 1945 teh USSR has devoted one-eighth of her resources to military purposes, Japan practically nothing. In Economic Growth in Japan and the USSR, Angus Maddison offers a comparative analysis of the growth experience of these two countries that greatly enlarges our knowledge of the development process. A better understanding of their past experience can be particularly illuminating and relevant for economic policy in developing countries today. This classic text was first published in 1969.

Economic growth in Japan and the USSR

Business & Money

MADDISON, Angus

Economics

W.W.Norton

Economic progress and policy in developing countries (Unwin University Books)

Allen& Unwin

Do national economic policies cause economic decline in developing countries, or do the conflicts between special interest groups force economic inequalities which might not otherwise exist? This work provides a current account of the economic histories of Brazil and Mexico since 1950. It analyzes how institutions, ideologies, power elites, and interest groups have affected each nation's economic growth and distribution of income. Maddison discusses key factors responsible for the economic progress of these countries--accumulated capital, productivity increases, relatively unimpeded foreign investment, and reasonably good foreign exchange rates.

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Brazil and Mexico (World Bank Comparative Study)

Oxford University Press

Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View

This book analyzes the nature of growth in advanced capitalist countries which account for half of the world GDP, using a standardized framework of comparative growth accounts. It identifies the causal factors responsible for the unprecedented growth in sixteen countries. Illuminating current economic issues in advanced capitalist countries, the author contributes to their collective economic history, and augments the evidence for the study of economic growth and its dynamics.

Religion & Spirituality

Phases of Capitalist Development

This comparative analysis of the growth performance and cyclical experience of sixteen advanced capitalist countries since 1820 illuminates the present economic problems and policy dilemmas of these countries by providing historical and comparative perspectives.

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, Part 1begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future and considers what the shape of the world economy might be in 2030. Combining both the close quantitative analysis with a more qualitative approach that takes into account the complexity of the forces at work, Contours of the World Economy provides students with a totally fascinating overview of world economic history.

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

History

Class structure and economic growth;: India and Pakistan since the Moghuls

Norton

Hailed a "an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the way in which western economies work" [Times Literary Supplement], this penetrating study of economic growth compares and analyzes tic rates of economic advance in the twelve leading countries that comprise the industrial West. Mr. Maddison examines why, after relative stagnation for several decades, the rate of economic development accelerated in continental Europe in the 1950’s, whether this represented a new economic pattern which could be maintained or was only a passing phase of recovery after World War II. He observes that the economies of North America and the United Kingdom seemed by comparison almost to stand still, and he explores the influence of economic policy on the differing growth rates, and the growth potentials and desirable lines of policy in the industrial West. He then discusses the major powers’ policy problems, whose outcome so closely affects the developing nations. Mr. Maddison presents basic statistical series, going back to 1870 in most cases, on gross national products, productivity, population, labor force, employment, working hours, investment and capital-output ratios. He draws upon this rich fund of comparative statistics with skill and insight, relating it throughout to the broad questions of economic policy which are at issue. This classic book was first published in 1964.

Economic Growth in the West: Comparative Experience in Europe and North America (Economic History)

Reference

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Economic growth in Japan and the USSR

Economic progress and policy in developing countries (Unwin University Books)

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Brazil and Mexico (World Bank Comparative Study)

Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View

Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View

Phases of Capitalist Development

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

Class structure and economic growth;: India and Pakistan since the Moghuls

Economic Growth in the West: Comparative Experience in Europe and North America (Economic History)