The puzzle that is Africa has captured the imagination of scholars, intellectuals and policy-makers. Jeff Sachs, Bono and Bill Gates have become identified in the public mind with the project to end poverty and disease in Africa. There should be no doubt that the puzzle is real and the...

We argue in this chapter that the transformation in the vision of economics from one in terms of processes to one in terms of equilibrium would in turn yielded public policy implications regarding the role of government and distributive justice. Although classical political economists had made a...