 Island political economyIvo Bertram () and Bernard Poirine Post-Print from HAL Abstract: In this chapter we build on the observation that island economies, and especially small ones (population below one million), exhibit a remarkably wide range of economic structures built on a correspondingly wide range of development strategies. Common elements of "islandness" may serve to define island economies as a general class, but there clearly exist several distinct "species" within that class, and a corresponding menu of strategic options open to islander communities in relation to the terms of their incorporation into the global economy. The chapter has two important messages. First, there is no unique path to development. Second, in small economies, the social capital and "institutions" emphasized in the recent development literature (Hall & Jones, 1999; Acemoglu et al., 2002; Rodrik et al., 2004) have to be understood as incorporating the ability to achieve and sustain community-wide strategic consensus around a particular development specialization, along with sufficient flexibility to switch to alternatives as and when the field of external opportunities changes. Keywords: Small; island; economies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Instute of island studies; UPEI. A world of islands, an island studies reader, University of prince Edward Islands (PEI) : University of Malta, pp.325-373, 2007 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00974441 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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