TY - BOOK AU - Lal,Deepak ED - International Center for Economic Growth. TI - Against dirigisme : the case for unshackling economic markets. SN - 1558153241 AV - HD82.L257 U1 - 338.9 20 PY - 1994/// CY - San Francisco, Calif. PB - ICS Press KW - Economic policy KW - Commercial policy KW - Free enterprise N1 - "An International Center for Economic Growth publication."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: The Misconceptions of ''development economics'' -- Markets, mandarins and mathematics -- Manners, morals and materialism: some Indian perceptions of America and Great Britain -- Poverty, power and prejudice: The North-South confrontation -- Trade and welfare: The Wistful mercantilism of Mr. Dell -- Politicians, economist and protection: the deaf meet the blind -- Does openness matter? How to appraise the evidence -- Resurrection of the pauper-labour arguement -- Money, exchange rates and economic integration: The Migration of money: From a liberation viewpoint -- Alternative roads to economic integration: the case for currency competition in European integration -- The limits of international cooperation addendum: greenery and the third world -- Trade blocs and multilateral free trade -- Fiscal and social policies: -- Fighting fiscal priviledge: toward a fiscal constitution -- Structural adjustment, the basic needs approach and development policy -- Social policy afte socialism ER -