Structuralist economics

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Structuralist economics is an approach to

Singer–Prebisch hypothesis, played a key role in this.[2]

Details

Dutt and Ros[3] argue that structuralist economists try to identify specific rigidities, lags as well as other characteristics of the structure of developing countries in order to assess the way economies adjust and their responsiveness to development policies. A normal assumption within this approach is that the price mechanism fails

Nixson[5] reports Bitar's[6] argument that there had become a broad consensus on what amounted to the neostructuralist approach. This included the recognition of:

  • the importance of political and institutional factors in the analysis of economic problems.
  • of the need to raise the level of domestic saving in order to raise the rate of investment given that external sources of finance are likely to be hard to come by
  • inflation as a "social phenomenon" requiring for its elimination social, psychological and political-institutional changes, as well as orthodox monetary and fiscal policies.
  • the false nature of dilemmas between for example ISI and EOI — planning and the market — agriculture and industry.
  • the need to strengthen the productive and technological base.
  • the importance of trying to improve the terms on which countries are integrated into the global economy and to improve international competitiveness.
  • structural adjustment as only one component of structural change.

More recent contributions to structuralist economics have highlighted the importance of institutions and distribution across both productive sectors and social groups. These institutions and sectors may be incorporated macroeconomic or multisectoral models. At the macroeconomic level modern structuralists would trace the origins of their approach to

input-output tables) are often used.[9] Lance Taylor has provided both a technical introduction to a form of structuralist economics and critique of more mainstream approaches.[10]

New structural economics

New structural economics is an economic development strategy developed by

World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin.[11] The strategy combines ideas from both neoclassical economics and structural economics.[11]

See also

Notes

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  2. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
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  3. ^ Dutt, Amitava Krishna and Ros, Jaime (2003) Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in honor of Lance Taylor, Edward Elgar, p. 55.
  4. ^ Dutt, Amitava Krishna and Ros, Jaime (2003) Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in honor of Lance Taylor, Edward Elgar
  5. ^ Colman, D. and Nixson, F. (1994) Economics of Change in Less Developed Countries, Harvester Wheatsheaf, p. 454
  6. ^ Bitar, S. (1988) Neoconservatism versus Neostructuralism in Latin America, CEPAL Review, No. 34.
  7. ^ Kalecki, M (1970) Problems of Financing Economic Development in a Mixed Economy.
  8. ^ FitzGerald, E. V.K. (1990) Kalecki on Financing Development: An Approach to the Macroeconomics of the Semi-industrialised Economy Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 14, issue 2, pages 183-203.
  9. ^ Taylor, L (1983) Structuralist macroeconomics: Applicable models for the third world, Basic Books, New York
  10. ^ Taylor, L (2004) Reconstructing Macroeconomics: Structuralist Proposals and Critiques of the Mainstream, Harvard University Press.
  11. ^ a b Lin, Justin. "New Structural Economics A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy" (PDF). The World Bank. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
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