Many transition policies, based on neoclassical economics, failed in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China. This paper argues that the failure is due to the viability assumption in neoclassical economics. Neoclassical economics implicitly assumes that a firm is expected to earn a...

A continuous flow of technology/industrial innovation is the key to sustained dynamic growth. Developing countries have an "advantage of backwardness" as they can borrow technology/industry from the developed countries. In an open, competitive market, the optimal technology/industrial structure...

Myrdal did not cover China in his Asian Drama. If he did, he would have been most likely pessimistic about China, as he was about other Asian countries in his book. However, China has achieved miraculous growth since the transition from a planned economy to a market economy at the end of 1978....

New structural economics is a new framework for rethinking economic development following structuralism and neoliberalism after World War II. This framework uses a neoclassical approach to study the determinants of economic structure and its evolution in a country's economic development (Lin,...

The Sah-Stiglitz "Economics of Price Scissors" model on the political economy of price scissors derives the optimal terms of trade against peasants. In the present paper, by extending this model to an open economy and allowing agricultural rationing, we first check if the model stands up to...