Keynes on Population publishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts omitted from the Collected Writings his Cambridge lectures on population and 1914 Oxford lecture on Population. It provides a detailed commentary on the text of Population and discusses the extent of Keynes's engagement with the Social Darwinist doctrine of the rapid multiplication of the unfit and with eugenics. It then traces the subsequent vicissitudes of his views on population.
Keynes on Population publishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts omitted from the Collected Writings his Cambridge lectures on population and 1...
Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the 1960s, the authors show how the UN both nurtured and inhibited creative and novel intellectual contributions to the trade and development debate. Presenting a stirring account of the main UN actors in this debate, The UN and Global Political Economy focuses on the accomplishments and struggles of UN economists and the role played by such UN agencies as the Department of Economic (and Social) Affairs, the United Nations Commission on Trade and...
Against the backdrop of a 20-year revolt against free trade orthodoxy by economists inside the UN and their impact on policy discussions since the ...
This up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy known as the Washington Consensus begins with a review of the original thesis by the originator of the term.
This up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy known as the Washington Consensus begins with a review of the original thesis...
When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid and Power has made one of the most significant and influential contributions to that debate. This edition has been revised to take account of changes within the World Bank itself and the extension of policy based lending to the formerly socialist economies of east and central Europe.
When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid...
Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged. Yet Does Aid Work in India?, first published in 1990, remains of great interest as a study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It identifies those sectors where aid-funded interventions succeeded, and where they failed. It explains how India avoided problems of aid dependence,...
Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the pov...
Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores how economic socio-cultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam Smith. Surveying narratives of how development occurs, from early evolutionary models to recent types of development theory, it outlines the main long-term changes in how socioeconomic development has been envisaged through time. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change presents the argument that socioeconomic development...
Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores h...
