Theories of Development

ISBN-13: 9780415602150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 320 str.

Peter Preston

Opis

This text presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the neo-Marxist debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.

Spis treści

Part I: Prologue  1. The Scope and Concerns of the Study  2. The Idea of Development Part II: The ‘Positivists’  3. The Crystallisation of the Positivist Orthodoxy, 1943-55  4. The Positivist High Tide: ‘Modernisation Theory’  Part III: The Radicals  5. The Contribution of the Neo-Institutionalists  6. Disciplinary Independence and Theoretical Progressivity  Part IV: The Marxists  7. Elements of the Renewal of Interest in Marxian Scholarship: The Treatments of the Third World  Part V: Concluding Remarks  8. Social Theorising and the Matter of the Third World

O autorze

Peter Preston