 | Business and the State in Developing Countries Subjects: Industrial policy -- Developing countries; Business and politics -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Economic policy; Much of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states... Ben Ross Schneider is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America . Sylvia Maxfield is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. |
