A01=Peter B. Evans
Author_Peter B. Evans
Behalf
Bourgeoisie
Bureaucrat
C-DOT
Capitalism
Category=JPQ
Category=KCM
Category=KFFD
Chaebol
Civil society
Commodity
Comparative advantage
Competition
Computer industry
Consumer
Customer
Dataquest
Developed country
Developmental state
Division of labour
Economy
Electronics
Embeddedness
Employment
Entrepreneurship
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Export
GoldStar
Hewlett-Packard
High tech
IBM
Illustration
Incentive
Incumbent
Industrial organization
Industrial policy
Industrialisation
Industry
Information technology
Infrastructure
Institution
Intel
Internationalization
Itautec
Joint venture
Manufacturing
Midwifery
Minicomputer
Multinational corporation
Organization
Policy
Political economy
Politician
Private sector
Rent-seeking
Research and development
Samsung
Social structure
State (polity)
State-owned enterprise
Strategic management
Subsidiary
Subsidy
Supply (economics)
Tariff
Technological change
Technology
Technology Sector
Telecommunication
Third World
Vertical integration
Wipro
World Bank
World economy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691037363
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 called "embedded autonomy."
Peter Evans, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Dependent Development: The Alliance of Multinational State and Local Capital in Brazil (Princeton).
