Download or read book Leap Into Modernity - Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943-1980 written by Adam Leszczyński and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of the market» as a panacea for underdevelopment.