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Embedded Autonomy

Evans, Peter B

2012,1995,2019

Overview

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.\"

• Publisher: Princeton University Press,Princeton Univ. Press
• Subject: Behalf / Bourgeoisie / Brasilien / Brazil / Bureaucrat / C-DOT / Capitalism / Chaebol / Civil society / Commodity / Comparative advantage / Competition / Computer / Computer industry / Computer industry -- Government policy -- Brazil / Computer industry -- Government policy -- India / Computer industry -- Government policy -- Korea (South) / Computerhardware / Computerindustrie / Consumer / Customer / Dataquest / Developed country / Developmental state / Division of labour / Economic Policy / Economics / Economy / Electronics / Elektronikindustrie / Embeddedness / Employment / Entrepreneurship / Export / GoldStar / Government policy / Hewlett-Packard / High tech / IBM / Illustration / Incentive / Incumbent / India / Indien / Industrial organization / Industrial policy / Industrialisation / Industrialisierung / Industrie / Industriepolitik / Industries / Industries -- Government policy -- Brazil / Industries -- Government policy -- India / Industries -- Government policy -- Korea (South) / Industry / Industry and state / Informatik / Information technology / Informations-/Kommunikationstechnologie / Informationstechnik / Infrastructure / Institution / Intel / Internationalisierung / Internationalization / Itautec / Joint venture / Korea (South) / Manufacturing / Midwifery / Minicomputer / Multinational corporation / Organization / Policy / Political economy / POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy / Politician / Private sector / Public Policy / Rent-seeking / Research and development / Samsung / Social structure / South Korea / Staatliche Einflussnahme / State (polity) / State-owned enterprise / Strategic management / Subsidiary / Subsidy / Supply (economics) / Südkorea / Tariff / Technological change / Technologieintensive Industrie / Technology / Technology Sector / Telecommunication / Third World / Verhältnis wirtschaftliche Akteure - Staat / Vertical integration / Wipro / Wirtschaftsunternehmen / World Bank / World economy / Öffentliches Unternehmen
• ISBN: 140082172X, 9781400821723, 0691037361, 9781400802104, 1400802105, 9780691037363, 069103737X, 9780691037370