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Adam Fforde - major works

Recent or forthcoming books by Adam Fforde (click-through to the publisher's catalogue entry):
Vietnamese State Industry and the Political Economy of Commercial Renaissance: Dragon's tooth or curate's egg? Oxford: Chandos 2007.
 "Adam Fforde's new book Vietnamese State Industry and the Political Economy of Commercial Renaissance is an essential read for anyone interested in the present state of Vietnam's economy.  The book's in depth exploration of the changing interests, incentives, and political resources of state owned enterprises (SOEs) over the past three decades provides a clear framework for understanding how Vietnamese economic policy has evolved and the challenges for reform that lay ahead.  Its careful, historical documentation of how SOEs initially motivated major economic reform, but now serve as hindrance will also be useful to scholars interested more generally in partial reform traps in economic development. I consider this book to be one of the core pieces in my course on Political Economy of Southeast Asia."

- Edmund J. Malesky, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

& Harvard Academy Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)
Coping with facts – a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development, forthcoming early 2009, Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.  

"You think that outward-oriented policies produce better results than import-substitution policies, or that beneficiaries' participation in project design makes for better project performance? Think again. Adam Fforde's book unpacks these and other familiar development prescriptions to reveal the implicit assumptions about agency, intentionality, and causality behind the whole development "industry". Drawing on sources from World Bank research reports, to Japanese and Vietnamese economists, to Marx and Cardinal Newman, and on to philosophers of science, the book provides a highly original rethinking of what is being said and done in the name of "development".

- Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy, London School of Economics and winner of Leontief Prize in Economics, 2008

Last revised: Wednesday March 18, 2009
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