The Politics of Road Expansion: Debunking Misled Economic Growth Narratives

This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world.

In the literature, the relationship between building roads and achieving economic growth is heavily reliant on quantitative tools while ignoring the contextual details of roading projects. Using the Aristotelian concept of phronesis, the research undertakes six case studies from New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Pakistan, Brazil and Kenya. Phronesis is an in...