Description
A country's industrial policy aims at promoting the development of sectors that often relate to manufacturing and is especially important for less-developed countries as they seek to catch up economically. Industrial Development and Division of Labor re-examines the long history behind the debate on its formulation and organises the discussion around the two types of division of labour found in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. One type has evolved to become the neoclassical perspective and its notion of market failure that has heavily skewed the debate's history. Noting its limitations, including the simplified catch-up learning that is conceived, this book illustrates that arguments for industrial policy that are rejected by Neoclassical economists – so-called 'protectionist' and import-substituting ones – and newer notions involving innovation systems actually share roots with Smith's other type of labour division. They offer broader perspectives on policy that call for establishing elaborate interactive contexts for learning for development.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Smith's two types of DoL and their treatment in the hands of Ricardo; 3. Hamilton, list, Rae, Carey: sceptical of DoLfg, sought to replicate DoLop; 4. Mill, Marshall, Jevons: extended DoLfg analysis, admired benefits of DoLop; 5. DoLfg-based trade with marginalist features, GE and commercial policy theories; 6. Marx, Young, Marshall(v): DoLop and new technological convergence; 7. Rosenstein-Rodan, Nurkse: consumption complementarities with no DoLop analysis; 8. Hirschman: existing technology convergence, joint-PL activation, and DoLop extension; 9. Krugman, Ethier: two branches of nt theory, with one exhibiting pseudo DoLop; 10. The GVC literature: a trojan horse for the return of neoliberalism?; 11. NSI and TC research: interactive learning, TC deepening in DoLop context; 12. The current round of the IP debate; 13. A dialogue among production-centred research streams, with concluding thoughts.
