Robert H. Bates is currently the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, where he has studied and provided consulting assistance in the areas of governmental reform, economic policy reform, and political economy for many countries throughout the world. He is the author of several books, including Open-Economy Politics (1998).
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
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评分如果是因为书名而放弃它,看官你就亏大了...
评分英文很漂亮
评分在讲非洲农业政策与失败故事的同时涉及政治经济学许多基本问题和方法,尤其重视政治势力在经济分赃问题上的博弈,可看成国家失败大命题的一个注脚。非洲各地面临典型发展中国家问题:快速工业化的欲望和相对落后的农业部门难以产出足够原料和资金供使用。不同于东亚国家双管齐下、工农皆补贴,非洲在出口经济作物、本地加工业、初生工业和农工管理官僚等强大利益集团影响下,以杀鸡取卵政策,压低食用谷物价格保证城市居民和工人供应,中间剪刀差或收归国有、或为官僚自肥,生产规划和技术补贴政策只惠及少部分人,货币故意升值以鼓励购买进口资本品,暴力镇压和分化实惠瓦解普通农民的反抗,以此维持一种脆弱的政治经济平衡。然食品不足终将推高食品价格、农业被压榨见底、工业停滞,压迫者反抗、受惠者不满,国家陷入混乱,最典型的非洲故事。
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