Interdependent Development.

Rather than being a book about 'development' per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis...

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Main Author: Brookfield, H. C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
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520 |a Rather than being a book about 'development' per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis to the spatial dimension in Western, Marxist and neo-Marxist thought, Harold Brookfield traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem of development from the days before the 'underdeveloped countries' were considered to be a major problem, through the years dominated by 'economic growt. 
505 0 |a INTERDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT HAROLD BROOKFIELD; Copyright; Interdependent Development Harold Brookfield; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 From The Beginning; Development thinking before 'development' began; Exploitation, protection and mercantilism; The rise of economic liberalism; Theory about growth, irrelevant to dependent economies; The 'ethical' period, and the emergence of 'development'; Theorizing around exploitation: Hobson and the Marxists; Economics, and the Great Depression of the 1930s; 2 The Virtues Of Growth; Growth in theory; Measures of economic performance; Models of growth 
505 8 |a The theoretical problem of getting growth startedThe measurement of required savings: a digression; Growth as a doctrine: the work of W. W. Rostow; Growth in action: the 1960s; The drive to achieve development; The First Development Decade; The case of Latin America; The Second Development Decade, and second thoughts; 3 Dualism, Sectors And Modernization; Dualism; From observation to argument: 'classic dualism'; Economic dualism: reasoning from premises; Economic dualism: testing and modification; Dualism revisited; The two-sector problem; The urban-industrial bias 
505 8 |a Industry or agriculture first?The wrong sort of industrialization?; The service sector; The comfortable myth of 'modernization'; The world of Dr Pangloss; Origins of modernization; Modernization: revisionism and dissent; 4 Notions Of Inequality, Space And Polarized Growth; Some antecedents; Joseph Schumpeter; François Perroux; Some lessons from history; Spread and backwash: centre and periphery; Albert Hirschman and Gunnar Myrdal; Disequalization as transition. John Friedmann; Growth poles and central places; Growth poles after Perroux; Central place theory, central places and diffusion 
505 8 |a Enter certain geographers, deep in conversation: stage rightBrian Berry; The 'geography of modernization'; Some enigmas of the geographers' contribution; General theory?; Horst Siebert; The later John Friedmann; Discussion; 5 Voices From The Periphery; Original and orthodox Marxism; The revolution did not take place where Marx predicted; China: the 'village' and the 'city'; The international socialist division of labour; Historical necessity or choice?; The Latin American structuralists: 'neo-Marxism'; Latin American origins; The Marxist infusion 
505 8 |a Towards a new paradigm: Prebisch, ECLA and industrializationUnderdevelopment as autonomous process: Celso Furtado; Erroneous theses and other dissents; The Caribbean version: plantation economy and branch plant; The 'development of underdevelopment'; 6 Interdependent Development: Approaches Towards Synthesis; Development and change in history and in theory; Economic development and economic history; Economy as 'instituted process'; Economists as revisionists; Transnational capitalism and national disintegration; Structuralism and development in richer lands 
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