A History of Development Economics Thought: Challenges and Counter-challenges: 109 (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) - Hardcover

Khan, Shahrukh Rafi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415676304 ISBN 13: 9780415676304

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics.

Given that the pioneers of development economics in the 1940s and 1950s drew inspiration from classical political economists, this book opens with a review of key classical scholars who wrote about the progress of the wealth of nations. In reviewing the thinking of the pioneers and those that followed, both their theories of development and underdevelopment are discussed. Overall, the book charts the evolution of development economic thought from the early developmentalists and structuralists, through to the neo-Marxist approach and radical development theory, the neo-liberal counter revolution, and the debate between new developmentalists and neo-liberal scholars. It ends with an assessment of the state of the field today.

This book will be of interest to all scholars and students interested in the evolution of development economics.

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About the Author

Shahrukh Rafi Khan is Visiting Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415676304
• ISBN 13: 9780415676304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166