Economic development and the division of labour - Yang Xiaokai (Blackwell Publishers London, 2003)
Keywords: Firm -- Urbanization and Industrialization -- Macroeconomics -- economic Transition -- Classical development economics and capitalist economic development, first global capitalist system and neoclassical development economics, returns to classical development economics, scientific approaches to development economics -- Geography and microeconomic mechanisms for economic development: Geography and economic development, division of labour,exogenous comparative advantage and trading efficiency, endogenous comparative advantage and trading efficiency, economies of scale and trading efficiency, coexistence of endogenous and exogenous comparative advantages and patterns of development and trade, structural changes, trade and economic development -- Institution of the firm, endogenous transaction costs and economic development : Economic development, institution of the firm and entrepreneurship, endogenous transaction costs, contracts and economic development, transaction risk, property rights, insurance and economic development -- Urbanization and industrialization : Urbanization structural duality between urban and rural areas and economic development, industrialization, structural changes, economic development and division of labour in Roundabout production -- Dynamic mechanisms for economic development : Neoclassical models of economic growth, economic development generated by endogenous evolution of division of labour, social experiment and evolution of knowledge of development -- Macroeconomics of development : Investment, saving and economic development, money, division of labour and economic development, endogenous business cycles, cyclical unemployment and endogenous long-run growth, Economic transition