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Title

Development theory : a guide to some unfashionable perspectives / Rune Skarstein.

Author

Skarstein, Rune.

Publication

Oslo ; Delhi ; New York : Ad Notam Gyldendal ; Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

ix, 140 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Examines a broad range of theories of economic development and underdevelopment, emphasizing the usefulness of holistic approaches that view development as a historical process. Discusses W.A. Lewis' dualism theory that focused on the internal relationship within the underdeveloped economy, the extensions of his model by Jorgenson, Fei and Ranis, and Harris and Todaro, and Nicholas Kaldor. Explores the role of agriculture and agricultural surplus in the process of development.

Subject

Economic development

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-134) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Karl Marx--a theory of capitalist underdevelopment? -- Lenin on capitalist development and imperialism -- The neoclassical school -- Raul Prebisch and the ECLA school: free trade and underdevelopment -- The dependency school -- W.A. Lewis's dualism theory -- Elaborations and extensions of Lewis's model -- Nicholas Kaldor's contribution to dualism theories: the role of effective demand -- The determinants of the agricultural surplus.

ISBN

• 8241708556
• 0195642414

LCCN

^^^97906436^

OCLC

• 38593315
• SCSB-11548801

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library