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1. Beyond Market-Driven Development

   Drawing on the Experience of Asia and Latin America

   Edited by Costas Lapavitsas

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems ‘repressed’ and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East Asia challenged the Washington consensus, offering an alternative development paradigm. However, in the 1990’s, Asian capitalism was disrupted following...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit

   By Costas Lapavitsas

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Where does the power of money come from? Why is trust so important in financial operations? How does the swapping of gifts differ from the exchange of commodities? Where does self-interest stop and communal solidarity start in capitalist economies?These issues and many more are discussed in a...

   Published September 3rd 2003 by Routledge
3. Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century

   Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

   Edited by Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established itself as a new orthodoxy, more powerful and widespread than...

   Published March 19th 2003 by Routledge
4. Development Policy in the Twenty-First Century

   Beyond the Post-Washington Consensus

   Edited by Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas, Jonathan Pincus

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The Post-Washington Consensus has succeeded in becoming the new theoretical underpinning for the World Bank's Structural Adjustment policies in developing countries. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the Post-Washington Consensus is unlikely to...

   Published March 7th 2001 by Routledge