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  • INEQUALITY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES
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    INEQUALITY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ISSUES
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Inequalities of opportunity affect a person’s life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice. High levels of inequality of opportunity discourage skill accumulation, choke economic and social mobility, and, consequently, depress economic growth. Inequality also entrenches uncertainty, vulnerability, and...

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  • POVERTY IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC THOUGHT
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    POVERTY IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Poverty in Contemporary Economic Thought aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty, including its causes, consequences, reduction and abolition. This edited volume traces the ideas of key writers and schools of modern economic thought across a significant period, ranging from Friedrich Hayek and Keynes to latter-day economists like Amartya ...

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  • POVERTY IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
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    POVERTY IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    MATS LUNDAHL / DANIEL RAUHUT / NEELAMBAR HATTI
    Poverty in the History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Neoclassical Economics aims to describe and critically examine how economic thought deals with poverty and the poor, including its causes, consequences, reduction, and abolition. This edited volume traces the economic ideas of key writers and schools of thought across a significant period, ranging from Adam Smith ...

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  • THE DEPENDENT ECONOMY
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    THE DEPENDENT ECONOMY
    MATS OVE LUNDAHL / LENNART PETERSSON
    This book aims to analyze Lesotho's prospects for economic advancement, and examines the influence of the policies and economic development of South Africa on Lesotho's own potential for development. ...

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  • GROWTH OR STAGNATION?
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    GROWTH OR STAGNATION?
    MATS LUNDAHL
    First published in 1999, the essays collected in the present volume derive from an interest in South Africa and its economy which goes back to the early 1970s and were written between 1994 and 1999. The intention is to follow how the debate on the South African economy has evolved since the fall of the apartheid regime. Issues discussed include the South African economy after a...

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  • THEMES IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
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    THEMES IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
    MATS LUNDAHL
    First published in 1998, this collection of essays deals with four different areas of international economics: the theory of international trade, trade and development, protectionism and factor movements (notably migration and foreign aid). These themes explore the determinants of trade patterns, the relation between these patterns and those of underdevelopment and development,...

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  • INCENTIVES AND AGRICULTURE IN EAST AFRICA (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    INCENTIVES AND AGRICULTURE IN EAST AFRICA (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Agriculture is at the centre of the economies of many developing countries, and its stagnation and poor performance across large parts of Africa is a major cause for concern. First published in 1990, this book focuses on the nature and role of incentives in agricultural organization and production in East Africa, looking in particular at the political and ideological determinan...

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  • PEASANTS AND POVERTY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    PEASANTS AND POVERTY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system. During most of thi...

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  • THE PRIMARY SECTOR IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    THE PRIMARY SECTOR IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MATS LUNDAHL
    It is a major problem for less developed countries to make their primary sectors sufficiently profitable in order to be able to build up their manufacturing and service sectors. This edited collection, first published in 1985, examines the nature of the primary sector and its role in economic development. Chapters consider problems of stagnation and income distribution in such ...

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  • UNEQUAL TREATMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    UNEQUAL TREATMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MATS LUNDAHL / ESKIL WADENSJO
    This book, written by two leading Swedish economists and first published in 1984, constitutes a threefold contribution to the expanding field of economic discrimination. In the first place, it summarizes different approaches to the economics of discrimination, from the beginning of the British debate on equal pay in the 1890s onwards. Secondly, the book contains analytical chap...

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  • THE HAITIAN ECONOMY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    THE HAITIAN ECONOMY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Haiti is a very poor country with a stagnant economy. This title, first published in 1983, considers the Haitian economy, placing it in its historical context, and explores the reasons why it has performed so badly. Mats Lundahl examines agriculture, which has failed to provide an adequate standard of living, analyses the structure of agricultural production, and explains why t...

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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DISASTER
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    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DISASTER
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international funding commitment. Mats Lundahl has written several seminal works on Haiti, and this ...

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  • KNUT WICKSELL ON THE CAUSES OF POVERTY AND ITS REMEDY
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    KNUT WICKSELL ON THE CAUSES OF POVERTY AND ITS REMEDY
    MATS LUNDAHL
    Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater understanding of the social sciences as a whole. In this outstanding volume, Mats Lun...

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  • PEASANTS AND RELIGION
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    PEASANTS AND RELIGION
    MATS LUNDAHL / JAN LUNDIUS
    This book examines the relationship between economics, politics and religion through the case of Olivorio Mateo and the religious movement he inspired from 1908 in the Dominican Republic. The authors explore how and why the new religion was formed, and why it was so successful. Comparing this case with other peasant movements, they show ways in which folk religion serves as a r...

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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM FAILURE
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    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF REFORM FAILURE
    LUNDAHL, MATS
    Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between political and economic phenomena. This book considers issues of economic reform in a broa...

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  • FROM CRISIS TO GROWTH IN AFRICA
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    FROM CRISIS TO GROWTH IN AFRICA
    LUNDAHL, MATS
    This book is concerned with the problem of achieving sustained economic growth in thirteen African countries. These are divided into three groups: the war stricken economics (Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia and Eritrea), the reform strugglers (Kenya, Cape Verde, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) and the growth seekers (Uganda, South Africa and Lesotho). Virtually all o...

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  • ECONOMIC CRISIS IN AFRICA
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    ECONOMIC CRISIS IN AFRICA
    BLOMSTRÖM, MAGNUS / LUNDAHL, MATS
    While the pitiful images of famine victims generally emanate from the very poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the entire region faces an intense economic crisis. Why is this area in a state of near-permanent crisis and perhaps more importantly, what can be done about it? In Economic Crisis in Africa the authors use country studies to examine how this situation has come ab...

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  • APARTHEID IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
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    APARTHEID IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    MATS OVE LUNDAHL
    This book employs the neoclassical theory of discrimination to explain the apartheid system of South Africa and the changes that discriminatory practice has undergone. It deals with the question whether economic sanctions are likely to be efficient weapons for combating racial discrimination. ...

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