TY - BOOK AU - Amsden, Alice H. AU - DiCaprio, Alisa AU - Robinson, James A. TI - The Role of Elites in Economic Development SN - 9780198716433 U1 - 338.9008621 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Development economics N1 - 1: Introduction: The Role of Elites in Economic Development Part I: Theoretical Considerations 2: Elites and Property Rights 3: Elites and Institutional Persistence Part II: The Formation and Circulation of Elites 4: The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial and Political 5: Fruit of the Vine? An Augmented Endowments-Inequality Hypothesis and the Rise of Elite in the Cape Colony 6: Two for the Price of One? The Contribution to Development of the New Female Elites, Alison Wolf 7: New Light on China's Rural Elites Part III: The Preferences of Elites 8: Poverty in the Eyes of Brazilian Elites 9: Mutual Interdependence between Elites and the Poor 10: Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth? Part IV: Elites and State Capactiy 11: The Simple Analytics of Elite Behaviour under Limited State Capacity 12: Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration? The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon, 13: Rekindling Governments from Within: Getting Public Sector Elite Officials to Support Government Reform in Brazil Part V: Grassroots Responses to Elites 14: Tackling Elite Capture by the 'Counter-Elite' and 'Co-Opt-Elite' Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana 15: Understanding the Dynamics of Elite Behaviour in a Development Context ER -