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The Rise and Fall of Development Theory - Softcover

Leys, Colin

 
9780253210166: The Rise and Fall of Development Theory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 025321016X ISBN 13: 9780253210166
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Lucid and controversial critique of development theory by a well-known practitioner-scholar.

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About the Author

COLIN LEYS is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His Underdevelopment in Kenya, published in 1977, was one of the most influential texts of the time.

From the Back Cover

This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The ex-colonial 'third world' for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the post-war regime of regulated international trade and capital movements has drastically curtailed the scope for state economic intervention. A much broader-based, more historical and more explicitly political theoretical effort is now called for.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
025321016X
ISBN 13 
9780253210166
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216