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Embedded autonomy : states and industrial transformation

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
eBook, English, ©1995
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1995
1 online resource (xx, 323 pages)
9781400821723, 9781400811533, 9781400802104, 9786612738333, 9781282738331, 140082172X, 1400811538, 1400802105, 6612738332, 128273833X
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1. States and Industrial Transformation
2. A Comparative Institutional Approach
3. States
4. Roles and Sectors
5. Promotion and Policing
6. State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry
7. The Rise of Local Firms
8. The New Internationalization
9. Lessons from Informatics
10. Rethinking Embedded Autonomy
English