Reconstructing Development Theory: International Inequality, Institutional Reform and Social Emancipation

ISBN-13: 9780230229815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str.

E A Brett

Opis

The book provides a systematic assessment of the evolution of development theory, its relationship to orthodox social science analysis and the liberal pluralistic orthodoxy that now dominates the mainstream approach to international development, showing how we can transcend its failure to address some key problems of late and uneven development

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction Reconstructing Development Theory for the 21st Century.- PART I: THE NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT THEORY.- The Crisis in Development Theory.- The Analytical Assumptions of Development Theory.- Evolutionary Institutional Change and Developmental Transitions.- PART II: THE LIBERAL INSTITUTIONAL PLURALIST CONSENSUS.- Market Societies, Open Systems and Institutional Pluralism.- State Regulation, Democratic Politics and Accountable Governance.- Politics and Public Management.- The Nature and Organisation of Capitalist Firms.- The Nature and Role of Solidaristic Organizations.- PART III: BEYOND LIBERAL PLURALISM: RECONSTRUCTING DEVELOPMENT THEORY.- The Political Economy of Structural Change.- Developmental Transitions: Learning from History.- Explaining Blocked Development.- The Social Theory of Developmental Transformations.- Building Strong States.- Building Capitalist Economies.- Conclusion: Theory, Agency and Developmental Transitions.

O autorze

E A BRETT is Senior Visiting Fellow, Development Studies Institute, LSE and formerly Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, Witwatersrand University, South Africa.