| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w21988
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 21988
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| Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964\u20132014 |
| Lee Alston; Bernardo Mueller
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| 发表日期 | 2016-02-15
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Alexander Gerschenkron understood the development of backward countries as a contextual process that varied from country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture evolved from “backward” to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil is in the worlds’ top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag far behind. We draw on the insights of Gerschenkron and Albert Hirschman, inter alia to conceptualize the development process. As an illustrative aid we apply fitness landscapes to the process of development. Fitness landscapes are good representations of a contextual view of development. We portray the process as an evolutionary search for good designs across a large, uncertain and not pre-statable set of possibilities. In such circumstances a controlled strategy of following predetermined stages is not effective. Rather we need an approach relying on creativity and imagination to find solutions to specific problems faced by each country. |
| 主题 | History
; Other History
; Environmental and Resource Economics
; Agriculture
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21988
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579662
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Lee Alston,Bernardo Mueller. Economic Backwardness and Catching Up: Brazilian Agriculture, 1964\u20132014. 2016.
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