{"product_id":"developmentalism-graham-harrison-9780198785798","title":"Developmentalism: The Normative and Transformative Within Capitalism","description":"Why do so few countries achieve development success? Achieving development requires many changes over a short period of time, generating instability and risk. It is a deep and integrated economy of change involving force, strategic thinking, and ideological conviction - it emerges when successful development is seen as necessary for the survival of a political order. \u003cem\u003eDevelopmentalism\u003c\/em\u003e engages with the moral issues that this raises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevelopmentalism: The Normative and Transformative within Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e uses a historical comparative approach to understand development as a transformation which involves a deep and integrated political economy of change - a shift from a state of 'capital-ascendance' to 'capital dominance'. It is only through a transformation towards capital dominance that mass poverty reduction and the construction of a commonwealth are possible. However, capitalist development is extremely difficult and requires a highly exacting political endeavour. The politics of development is conceptualized as developmentalism: a strategy and ideology in which governments exercise heavy directive power, endure instability and crisis, and secure a rudimentary legitimacy for their efforts. This book argues that developmentalism requires a conflation of successful capitalist transformation with some form of existential insecurity of the state itself. It flourishes when capitalist transformation connects to profound questions of sovereignty, statehood, nation-building, and elite survival. \u003cem\u003eDevelopmentalism\u003c\/em\u003e shows deep contextualisation of capitalist transformation as well as the massive improvements in material life that it has generated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198785798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198785798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Graham Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054755737855,"sku":"9780198785798","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e2a00a9-0599-4739-8e3f-38851673ee46.jpg?v=1685031810","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/developmentalism-graham-harrison-9780198785798","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}