Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Introduction:
How did the Rich Countries
Really Become Rich?
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Some Methodological Issues: Drawing
Lessons from History
1.3. The Chapters
1.4. A ‘Health Warning’
Chapter 2
Policies for Economic Development:
Industrial, Trade and Technology Policies in Historical Perspective
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Catch-up Strategies
2.3. The Pulling-Ahead Strategy by
the Leader and the Responses of the
Catching-up Countries – Britain and
its Followers
Chapter 3
Institutions and Economic Development:
‘Good Governance’ in Historical Perspective
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The history of institutional development in the developed countries
3.3. Institutional development in developing countries then and now
Chapter 4
Lessons for the Present
4.1. Introduction
4.2 Rethinking Economic Policies for Development
4.3 Rethinking Institutional Development
4.4. Possible Objections
4.5 Concluding Remarks
References