Understanding Development Economics: Its Challenge to Development Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415869829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 354 str.

Adam Fforde

Opis

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, measurable discipline prone to wide usage of mathematical modelling, and the more discursive, practice based approach favoured by Development Studies. The aim of this book is to show how the two disciplines have interacted, as well as how they differ. This is crucial in forming an understanding of development work, and to thinking about why policy recommendations can often lead to severe and continuing problems in developing countries. This book introduces Development Economics to those coming from two different but linked perspectives; economists and students of development who are not economists. In both explaining and critiquing Development Economics, the book is able to suggest the implications of these findings for Development Studies, and more broadly, for development policy and its outcomes.

Spis treści

Part 1: Development Economics: Theory and its Application  1. Ways to Cope with Development Economics  2. Evidence and Positions  3. Interdisciplinary Boundaries: the Limits of Economics  4. Development Economics  5. Toward Better Management of Understanding  6. Coping with Facts  7. Established Theories of Economic Growth Part One  8. Established Theories of Economic Growth Part Two 9. Micro-foundations  10. Contemporary Internal Radicalism  11.  Alternative Economic Theories  12. Other Visions of the Developing Economy  13. More Visions of the Developing Economy  14. Determinants of Economic Policy in Developing Countries  15. Policy Debacles and their Legacy  Part Two: Topics and Issues 16. Poverty, Inequality and Accounts  17. The Economics of Factor Markets in Economic Development  18. Development Dogmas and their Histories  19. Import Substituting Industrialization Revisited  20. Globalization and Economic Development: Some Histories  21. Why East Asia?  22. Experimental economics, the problem of empirics, and the challenge to development studies  23. Conclusions

O autorze

Adam Fforde is a part-time Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, and he holds an honorary position at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.