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Abdelkader
Sid Ahmed
Economie
de L'Industrialisation à Partir
des Ressources Naturelles (I.B.R.),
Tome 1
[Economy
of Industrialisation based on
Natural Resources,
Volume 1]
[Ökonomie
der Industrialisierung auf
Grundlage Natürlicher Ressourcen,
Band 1]
(Paris
: Publisud, 1989), 481 pp.,
€ 31.07 ISBN: 2-86600-381-0 Order No. 102050133
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The book
discusses the following key questions: Is there a specific
form of industrialisation in economies that depend on the
exploitation and massive exports of natural resources? Is
it possible to identify a certain number of common structural
profiles based on historical experience (USA, Egypt and Scandinavia
in the 19th century, Brazil, Argentina et al.)? Is it possible
to understand the mechanisms and parameters that explain the
success or failure of the industrialisation based on natural
resources and to develop a general theory on the effects of
a sector that is surrounded by the rest of the economy with
regard to structural changes of the productive sector? This
book tries to show that it is possible to develop the basis
for a veritable economy of industrialisation based on natural
resources that offers a superior analytical power over traditional
analytical schemes that are based on the unequal exchange
or on the mechanic effects of induction (e.g. the theory of
the product cycle).
This volume
develops in the first chapter reviews of theoretical models
for an industrialisation based on natural resources (IBR)
based on a critical review of the theoretical economic literature
with a special focus on Chenery, Taylor, Kader and Syrquin,
chapter 2 analyses the historical experience of such an IBR,
its successes and failures, chapter 3 outlines the theoretical
foundations for an IBR, chapter 4 examines the new conditions
of international trade and of production with a special focus
on research and development, chapter 5 discusses theoretical
elements on IBR and unequal exchange and chapter 6 offers
a synthesis on the elements of an economy of industrialisation
based on natural resources (IBR).
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