Book Review: The Post-Crisis Developmental State: Perspectives from the Global Periphery

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Gerőcs, T. – Ricz, J. (eds) (2021). The Post-Crisis Developmental State: Perspectives from the Global Periphery Cham Palgrave Macmillan, p. XVI + 337. 978-3-030-71986-9 A developmental state (DS) is worth being monitoring closely from all angles of regimes and all stages of development. The efforts that developmental states exerted and keep exerting, and the results they lead to, provide academics, policy advisors and decision makers around the globe with plenty of historical and sector-specific lessons. The umbrella-theme of the volume under review is economic and developmental policy-making in the global semi-periphery. The developmental state as a research area has an academic language of its own, and the definition of the developmental state is currently shifting, now including emerging and developing countries as well. (...)