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Author : Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1842776452
A survey of the main influences on the development of modern development economics.
Author : Gerald M. Meier,Péter Tamás Bauer,Dudley Seers
Publisher : New York : Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0195204794
"It is a rare treat to read the reminiscences of [this] group of development economists....We can be grateful to the World Bank for bringing these intellectual giants together to present their retrospective views..."--Choice The pioneers in development economics--Lord Bauer, Colin Clark, Albert O. Hirschman, Sir Arthur Lewis, Gunnar Myrdal Raul Prebisch, Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan, W.W. Rostow, H.W. Singer, and Jan Tinbergen--offer a retrospective view of the formative decade after World War II when they made their seminal contributions to the subject. In individual papers, the pioneers recapture the intellectual excitement, expectations, and activism of that period and provide rare autobiographical detail and insight into why they said what they did and what they now think about the state of development thought and policy. Commentary is provided by economists of the succeeding generation, who reappraise their ideas with the benefit of hindsight. General overviews of the subject have been written by Gerald M. Meier and Paul Streeten.
Author : Theodore William Schultz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038213448
The two outstanding features in the evolution of development economics have been the resurgence of neo-classical analysis during the 1960s and 1970s and, as a derivative, the prescription of appropriate policies for development. The papers in this volume examine the changing contours of the subject of economic development over the past three decades, focusing on these two features and indicating how their results have been most impressive for the analysis of agricultural policy, trade policy, and project evaluation. Five pioneers in special fields related to the subject--agriculture, international trade, trade and development, project appraisals, and structuralism and dependency--review their own contributions and interpret the evolution of their fields during the 1960s and 1970s, with other prominent economists serving as commentators. Together, the papers provide considerable insight into how development thought has evolved in response to the development experience since the 1950s, and from that, how it might evolve in the future.
Author : Shahrukh Rafi Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317811572
This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics. Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review of key classical scholars who wrote about the progress of the wealth of nations. In reviewing the thinking of the pioneers and those that followed, both their theories of development and underdevelopment are discussed. Overall, the book charts the evolution of development economic thought from the early developmentalists and structuralists, through to the neo-Marxist approach and radical development theory, the neo-liberal counter revolution, and the debate between new developmentalists and neo-liberal scholars. It ends with an assessment of the state of the field today. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students interested in the evolution of development economics.
Author : Gerald M. Meier,Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195215923
With contributions from 35 leading economists, this forward-looking book explores the future of development economics against the background of the past half-century of development thought and practice. Outstanding representatives of the past two generations of development economists assess development thinking at the turn of the century and look to the unsettled questions confronting the next generation.The volume offers a thorough analysis of the broad range of issues involved in development economics, and it is especially timely in its critique of what is needed in development theory and policy to reduce poverty. An overriding issue is whether in the future 'development economics' is to be regarded simply as applied economics or whether the nature and scope of development economics will constitute a need for a special development theory to supplement general economic theory.'Frontiers of Development Economics' is an ideal reference for all those working in the international development community.
Author : Rainer Kattel,Jan A. Kregel,Erik S. Reinert
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857288911
‘Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today’ presents a selection of papers that casts new insight on Nurkse’s thought, and discusses his relevance for today, in light of the renewed interest in Nurkse amongst development economists. The volume also celebrates the 100th anniversary of this profoundly important thinker’s birth.
Author : Jomo Kwame Sundaram,Erik S. Reinert
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842776479
A history of the emergence of development economics as a distinct sub-discipline.
Author : Jomo K.S.,Ben Fine
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842776436
This volume provides a critique of the post-Washington Concensus in neoliberal economics.
Author : Albert O. Hirschman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691165677
Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice. Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book.
Author : Thomas R. DeGregori
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400910775
Author : Jean Waelbroeck
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Acuerdos economicos - India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Richard W. T. Pomfret
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000042789747
Recoge: 1. Introduction: concepts and measurement - 2. Pioneers of development economics - 3. Industrialization policies of the 1950s - 4. Interactions between industry and agriculture - 5. The neoclassical revival and its application to agriculture - 6. Agriculture since the 1960s - 7. Export pessimism and import-substitution policies - 8. Export-led growth - 9. The radical critique - 10. The international economic order - 11. Mobilizing domestic savings - 12. Foreign sources of capital - 13. The role of international organizations - 14. Population and migration - 15. Human capital - 16. Planning versus the market mechanism - 17. Economic reform in market economies - 18. The transition from central planning - 19. The environment and sustainable development - 20. Income inequality, growth and poverty alleviation - 21. Summary and conclusions.
Author : Michele Alacevich
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Banks and Banking Reform
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Abstract: Development economics in its early years created the image of a fierce fight between advocates of contrasting theories or approaches- "balanced growth" vs. "unbalanced growth" or "program loans" vs. "project loans." This view has the merit to highlight such conflicts in great detail; yet it fails to take into account the reality of development economics as it was practiced in the field. This paper reassesses these old conflicts by complementing the traditional focus on theoretical debates with an emphasis on the practice of development economics. A particularly interesting example is the debate between Albert Hirschman, one of the fathers of the "unbalanced growth" approach, and Lauchlin Currie, among the advocates of "balanced growth" on how to foster iron production in Colombia in the 1950s. An analysis of the positions held by these two economists shows that they were in fact much less antithetical than is usually held and, indeed, were in some fundamental aspects surprisingly similar. Debates among development economists during the 1950s thus must be explained-at least partially-as the natural dynamics of an emerging discipline that took shape when different groups tried to achieve supremacy-or at least legitimacy-through the creation of mutually delegitimizing systemic theories.
Author : Shahrukh Rafi Khan,Jens Christiansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136919244
The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 has provoked the exploration of alternatives to neo-liberalism. Although neo-liberalism has been critiqued from various perspectives, these critiques have not coalesced into a concrete alternative in development economics literature. The main objective of this book is to name and formulate this alternative, identify what is new about this viewpoint, and project it on to the academic landscape. This book includes contributions from many prominent development economists who are unified by a form of "developmental pragmatism". Their concern is with the problems of development that preoccupied the pioneers of economic development in the mid-twentieth century, known as the developmentalists. Like the developmentalists, the contributors to Towards New Developmentalism are policy-oriented and supportive of institutional development and engagement with economic globalization. This collection has an over-arching concern with promoting social justice, and holds the general view of the market as the means to affecting an alternative program of development rather than as a master whose dictates are to be obeyed without question. This important collection sets the agenda for new developmentalism, drawing on issues such as industrial policy, technology, competition, growth and poverty. In broad terms, the economic development debate is cast in terms of whether the market is the master, an ideological neo-liberal perspective, or the means to affect change as suggested by the pragmatic perspective that is being termed neo-developmentalism. This book will be valuable reading to postgraduates and researchers specialising in the area of development studies including within economics, international relations, political science and sociology.
Author : Travis J. Lybbert,J. Edward Taylor
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520343580
Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses. This new edition includes: updated references to international development policy process and goals substantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text both current and policy relevant replacement of several special features with new ones featuring widely cited studies