The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations : A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment

ISBN-13: 9780415602198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 336 str.

Carlos Ramirez-Faria

Opis

First published in 1991 this text provides an analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. Central to the author's investigation is the concept of underdevelopment, and a focus on successive Western 'systems of conceptualisation' of the relationship between the west and the rest of the world.

Spis treści

1. Cultural Relativism, Eurocentrism and Marx’s Asiatic Mode of Production  2. The Anti-Imperialist Reaction and the Marxist Pre-emption of Economic Imperialism Theory  3. Policies and Politics in the Struggle for the Third World  4. The Marxist Response to Western Developmentalism  5. The Overthrow of the Orthodoxies and the Progress of the West

O autorze

Carlos Ramirez-Faria