In Machiko Nissanke and José Antonio Ocampo (editors), The Palgrave handbook of developments economics. Réflexions critiques sur la mondialisation et le développement. Chapitre : Questions méthodologiques et conceptuelles en économie du développement. Manuel de l’économie du développement de Palgrave, Chapiter 6, Palgrave, MacMillan, pages 177-227.
Abstract
Development is not the search for an optimal static macro-equilibrium but it derives from the art of creating, if not miracles, at least virtuous circles in which social values, organizations, institutions and technological systems co-evolve. Development modes are therefore built upon the discovery of possible institutional arrangements that fulfil two conditions: the viability of the accumulation process and a political legitimacy around an implicit or explicit institutionalized compromise. The survey of economic history reveals a limited number of these modes: import substitution development, export-led, foreign direct investment-led and finally based upon low wage and poor welfare. Contemporary China explores a genuine development mode built upon the acute competition between a myriad of local corporatism under the aegis of a party-State. Most of these modes rely upon the resilience of an open world economy. Its stability is not guaranteed given the obstacles to the defense of global public goods and to the creation of new Commons. Last but not least, the merits of an anthropogenetic model based on education, health and culture should not be underestimated.
Keywords
Development mode Regulation theory Accumulation regime Institutionalized compromise Viability
In Lechevalier Sébastien editor, Innovation Beyond Technology: Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches is available on and will be perpetually maintained on SpringerLink, 2019, Springer, p. 89-120.
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The chapter argues that the conventional scientific determinism does explain the long term evolution of health care systems. First the illness and the medical knowledge and techniques are socially constructed and historically determined .Second the methods for financing and organizing care shape the intensity and direction of medical breakthroughs. Third scientific advances generally do not reduce the medical costs because the new therapies diffuse and more complex diseases challenge medical expertise. It is thus important to replace a static equilibrium-based approach with an evolutionary and institutionalized vision that takes into account the two sided causalities between social innovations and the invention and diffusion of new therapies. The performance of the health care sector cannot be measured by usual productivity indexes since so many factors determine the life expectancy in good health of the population .A large diffusion of education exerts positive spill overs upon the prevention of diseases and the preservation of health. This calls for a society wide approach to health as a component of a genuine to, “anthropogenic” mode of development. Clear social innovations are required for this mode to prosper and not only purely medical breakthroughs.
Entretien avec Pierre ALARY, Revue de la Régulation, n° 25, 1er semestre 2019
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The pedagogy of economic, political and social crises: Dynamics, construals and lessons, Bob Jessop and Karim Knio (Eds), Routledge: Frontiers of Political Economy, London, New-York, juin 2018, Chapitre 8, p.139-165.
in The Palgrave Handbook of Political Economy, Cardinale, Ivano, Scazzieri, Roberto (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan UK, (2018), p. 543-603
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Ce livre est une contribution majeure à l’étude de l’économie politique. Avec des chapitres allant des origines de l’économie politique à ses domaines de recherche les plus passionnants, ce manuel propose une réévaluation de l’économie politique telle qu’elle se présente aujourd’hui, tout en faisant preuve de la plus grande hardiesse possible. Ce manuel transcende la dichotomie reçue entre l’économie politique en tant qu’application de la théorie du choix rationnel ou en tant qu’étude des causes du bien-être matériel des sociétés, décrivant un champ d’étude plus vaste englobant ces traditions. Ce livre sera une lecture essentielle pour les universitaires, les chercheurs, les étudiants et tous ceux qui recherchent une réévaluation complète de l’économie politique.
Robert Boyer, Hiroyasu Uemura, Toshio Yamada, Lei Song, in Boyer Robert, Toshio Yamada, and Lei Song (Eds), Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms. Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia, book series (EESCS, volume 11), Springer, Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2018, p. 459-483.
in Boyer Robert, Toshio Yamada, and Lei Song (Eds), Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms. Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia, book series (EESCS, volume 11), Springer, Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2018, p. 259-302
in Boyer Robert, Toshio Yamada, and Lei Song (Eds), Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms. Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia, book series (EESCS, volume 11), Springer, Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2018, p. 17-64