Overview
- Interweaves political and economic analysis and the interaction between political and economic factors
- Serves as a case study of the problems facing resource-rich underdeveloped economies
- Written in an accessible style so as to allow for a wide readership
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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About this book
This book will appeal to scholars and students of economics, political and social science. It will also be of interest to practitioners in these fields as it focuses on down-to-earth problems that need to be solved for the economy todevelop.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mats Lundahl is Professor emeritus of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he held his chair between 1987 and 2013. He has published widely in professional journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Latin American Studies, Human Organization and Comparative Economic Studies. He is also the author or editor of sixty-six books. The most recent one published by Palgrave Macmillan is The Economic of the Frontier: Conquest and Settlement (with Ronald Findlay, 2017).
Fredrik Sjöholm is Professor of International Economics at Lund University and affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics. Sjöholm has published a large number of articles on globalization in international journals including the American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Geography and European Economic Review. He has also edited two books on Southeast Asia, including Multinational Corporations in Indonesia and Thailand: Wages, Productivity and Exports (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Creation of the East Timorese Economy
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: History of a Colony
Authors: Mats Lundahl, Fredrik Sjöholm
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19466-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19465-9Published: 30 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19468-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19466-6Published: 17 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 313
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Asian History, Development Economics, Political Science, Development Studies, Natural Resource and Energy Economics