Jeffrey D. Sachs & Xiaokai Yang 
Economic Development and the Division of Labor 

This innovative new text from Jeffrey Sachs and Xiokai Yang
introduces students to development economics from the perspectives
of inframarginal analysis and marginal analysis. The book
demonstrates how the new-found emphasis on inframarginal analysis
has influenced a shift back to an interest in Classical Economics
from Neoclassical Economics.

* * Inframarginal Analysis vs. Marginal Analysis is presented as a
consistent theoretical framework throughout.

* Shows how the relationship of Inframarginal Analysis to
Marginal Analysis has influenced the shift back to an interest in
Classical Economics from Neoclassical Economics with regard to
economic development.

* Allows economists to reduce their overall reliance on marginal
analysis, which may be less relevant to development economics than
it is to the economics of development countries.

* Brings considerable analytic machinery to bear on important
problems.

* A focus on institutions and transaction costs that is very
relevant to development economics.

* Offers a thorough analysis of trade (CHs. 3 – 7) and
macroeconomics (CHs. 16 – 19), both of which are not dealth with in
depth by comparable textbooks.

Table des matières

Preface.

1. Introduction.

Part I: Geography and Microeconomic Mechanisms for Economic
Development:.

2. Geography and Economic Development.

3. Driving Force I: Exogenous Comparative Advantage and Trading
Efficiency.

4. Driving Force II: Endogenous Comparative Advantage and
Trading Efficiency.

5. Driving Force III: Economies of Scale and Trading
Efficiency.

6. Coexistence of Endogenous and Exogenous Comparative
Advantages and Patterns of Development and Trade.

7. Structural Changes, Trade, and Economic Development.

Part II: The Institution of the Firm, Endogenous Transaction
Costs, and Economic Development:.

8. Economic Development, the Institution of the Firm, and
Entrepreneurship.

9. Endogenous Transaction Costs, Contract, and Economic
Development.

10. Transaction Risk, Property Rights, Insurance, and Economic
Development.

Part III: Urbanization and Industrialization:.

11. Urbanization, Dual Structure between Urban and Rural Areas,
and Economic Development.

12. Industrialization, Structural Changes, Economic Development,
and Division of Labor in Roundabout Production.

Part IV: Dynamic Mechanisms for Economic
Development:.

13. Neoclassical Models of Economic Growth.

14. Economic Development Generated by Endogenous Evolution in
Division of Labor.

15. Social Experiments and Evolution of Knowledge of Economic
Development.

Part V: Macroeconomics of Development:.

16. Investment, Saving, and Economic Development.

17. Money, Division of Labor, and Economic Development.

18. Endogenous Business Cycles, Cyclical Unemployment, and
Endogenous, Long-run Growth.

19. Economic Transition.

References.

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Xiaokai Yang is a Personal Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His research papers have appeared in The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economics, and other journals. He is the author of Economics: New Classical versus Neoclassical Frameworks (Blackwell, 2000).