Overview
- Shows how S-curve experiences can provide useful information on industrial policy (responding to technology convergence) and the role of government, as well as contemporary discourse for international development
- Provides a history of technology through the S-curve perspective
- Looks to the future of ICT technologies
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Is there a limit to technological advancements? Are technological advancements creating a more equal and fair world? Starting from influential thinkers driving a never-ending evaluation of development discourse – incorporating theories of modernisation, endogenous growth, globalisation, neoliberalism and several others – Seung-Jin Baek answers these questions and sets out practical steps to create societies that are more equal in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
This book explores why Western-centred development strategies are unlikely to bring about similar developmental paths and outcomes in developing economies. By theoretically and empirically assessing the Technology-Development-Inequality nexus, Baek explores why a distorted developmental path has been observed in recent years, with high income countries being associated with rising inequality.
This is important reading for all those seeking to understand international development in a twenty-first century context.
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Keywords
- S-curve theory
- History of technology
- ICT development
- Technological growth
- Technological development
- Evolutionary Economics
- Innovation economics
- Economics of innovation
- Technology policy
- Neo-Modernisation
- Technology-Development-Inequality Nexus
- Structural transformation in Africa
- Inequality-growth landscape
- Neo-Developmentalism
- Fourth Industrial Revolution
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Meta-Narrative on the Technology-Development-Inequality Nexus
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Growth and Inequality Interaction in the Quest for Sustainable Development
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Theory of the Developmental S-Curve in Process of Development
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Seung-Jin Baek is a South Korean Economist, working at various United Nations Economic and Social Commissions. His research focus lies at the nexus of multidimensional inequality and sustainable transformation and is broadly applicable, most notably to the fields of development policy and political economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of Neo-modernisation
Book Subtitle: Rethinking the Dynamics of Technology, Development and Inequality
Authors: Seung Jin Baek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91394-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91393-3Published: 09 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08242-0Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91394-0Published: 24 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 343
Number of Illustrations: 61 b/w illustrations
Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Public Economics