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Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Peter B. Evans
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:344
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreDevelopment economics
Public finance
ISBN/Barcode 9780691037363
ClassificationsDewey:351.82
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 11 tables

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 9 March 1995
Publication Country United States

Description

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. "

Author Biography

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).

Reviews

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995 "This carefully researched and well-written book is an important addition to development literature."--Choice "Evans establishes himself once again as an indisputable leader of the development field. This book represents the finest example of the comparative institutional analysis of the state's role in economic transformation in the contemporary world."--Journal of Sociology