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Author Evans, Peter B., 1944-

Title Embedded autonomy : states and industrial transformation / Peter Evans.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 323 pages).
Series Princeton paperbacks
Princeton paperbacks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index.
Contents 1. States and Industrial Transformation -- 2. A Comparative Institutional Approach -- 3. States -- 4. Roles and Sectors -- 5. Promotion and Policing -- 6. State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry -- 7. The Rise of Local Firms -- 8. The New Internationalization -- 9. Lessons from Informatics -- 10. Rethinking Embedded Autonomy.
Summary In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties.
Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in-between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans calls "embedded autonomy."
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Language English.
Subject Computer industry -- Government policy -- Brazil.
Computer industry -- Government policy -- India.
Computer industry -- Government policy -- Korea (South)
Industrial policy -- Brazil.
Industrial policy -- India.
Industrial policy -- Korea (South)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Computer Industry.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Computer industry -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00872172
Industrial policy. (OCoLC)fst00971433
Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
Korea (South) (OCoLC)fst01206791
Industriepolitiek.
Industriële ontwikkeling.
Computerindustrie.
Staat (politicologie)
Industrias secundarias (economia)
Industriepolitik.
Wirtschaftspolitik.
Mikroelektronikindustrie.
Computerindustrie.
India.
Brazil.
Südkorea.
Indexed Term Computers Trades
Brazil
India
Korea
Note Subtitle on cover: States & industrial transformation
Other Form: Print version: Evans, Peter B., 1944- Embedded autonomy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995 9780691037363 (DLC) 94031963 (OCoLC)30915448
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