Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy Series)

Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media's profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media's role in enabling and inhibiting political-economic reforms that promote development. The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects a country's ability to prosper. The authors identify specific media-related policies governments of underdeveloped countries should adopt if they want to grow. They illustrate why media freedom is a critical ingredient in the recipe of economic development and why even the best-intentioned state involvement in media is more likely to slow prosperity than to enhance it.Coyne, Christopher J. is the author of 'Media, Development, and Institutional Change (New Thinking in Political Economy Series)' with ISBN 9781847204783 and ISBN 1847204783.