Development theory : a guide to some unfashionable perspectives

By:

Skarstein, Rune

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: ix, 140 p. : illISBN:

9780195642414 .
0195642414

Subject(s):

Economic development

DDC classification:

330.122 SKA

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Contents:

Karl Marx--a theory of capitalist underdevelopment? -- Lenin on capitalist development and imperialism -- The neoclassical school -- Raul Prebisch and the ECLA school: free trade and underdevelopment -- The dependency school -- W.A. Lewis's dualism theory -- Elaborations and extensions of Lewis's model -- Nicholas Kaldor's contribution to dualism theories: the role of effective demand -- The determinants of the agricultural surplus.

Summary: This book highlights the contributions made by different schools of development studies in understanding socio-economic development as a historical process, and presents formal models in this holistic perspective.

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Karl Marx--a theory of capitalist underdevelopment? --
Lenin on capitalist development and imperialism --
The neoclassical school --
Raul Prebisch and the ECLA school: free trade and underdevelopment --
The dependency school --
W.A. Lewis's dualism theory --
Elaborations and extensions of Lewis's model --
Nicholas Kaldor's contribution to dualism theories: the role of effective demand --
The determinants of the agricultural surplus.

This book highlights the contributions made by different schools of development studies in understanding socio-economic development as a historical process, and presents formal models in this holistic perspective.

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