"This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development. The UK industrialized over two centuries, and then started to de-industrialize in the late 1960s. Today, the most rapid developers e…
This book highlights the importance of time and timing in economic and social development. 'Compressed development' consists of two key features and their interaction: the tendency for development processes to unfold more rapidly (compression) and the institution-shaping influen…
Balancing and blending ideas of globalization with an understanding of historical and institutional contexts of development is an important challenge for many across the social sciences. This book aims to bridge some of these debates through the concept of 'compressed developmen…