Business, Politics and the State in Africa: Challenging the orthodoxies on growth and transformation
本书认为非洲近期经济繁荣多依赖不可持续的初级商品增长，需向高附加值制造业和服务业转型，并挑战了非洲新世袭政治文化无法有效实施产业政策的传统观点。
Arguing that much of Africa’s recent economic boom has been confined to unsustainable growth in primary commodities, this book contends that African economies need structural transformation into higher-‐value manufacturing and services. While evidence from other regions emphasizes state action to overcome collective action problems and create the‘predictability’ necessary for structural transformation, conventional wisdom has deemed Africa’s neo-‐patrimonial political culture too insalubrious an environment for the state to act effectively. This book challenges this view: there can be such a thing as developmental patrimonialism and it mobilizes an array of historical and contemporary material to lobby for stronger and smarter support for industrial policies.