The flexible economy : causes and consequences of the adaptability of national economies / edited by Tony Killick.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Relevance, meaning and determinants of flexibility / Tony Killick -- Flexibility and long-term economic development / Moshe Syrquin -- Flexibility in economic theory / Kaushik Basu -- Economic adaptability in the long term / E.L. Jones -- Adapting the economies of Eastern Europe : behavioural and institutional aspects of flexibility / Alexander Neuber -- Economic inflexibility in Africa : evidence and causes / Tony Killick -- Explaining 'flexible rigidities' in East Asia / Ha-Joon Chang -- A comparative study of flexibility in the response of natioal economies to the oil-price shocks / Peter Smith and Alistair Ulph -- Industrial adaptation and technological capabilities in developing countries / Sanjaya Lall -- Flexibility in finance / Maxwell J. Fry -- The political determinants of economic flexibility, with special reference to the East Asian NICs / David Seddon and Tim Belton-Jones -- Conclusions : economic flexibility, progress and policies / Tony Killick.

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The accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable. Economies which are flexible flourish, as in Eastern Asia. Inflexible economies stagnate, as in Eastern Europe and Africa. However even though adaptability governs the long-term progress of economies, economists have had little to say about the nature and determinants of economic flexibility. This book redresses that situation. A prestigious team of contributors address the key theoretical and empirical issues, using a wide range of country studies.

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