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Biography of a Subject - An Evolution of Development Economics (Paperback, New)
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The study of economic development is one of the newest, most
exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline
of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that
Adam Smith was the first "development economist," the systematic
study of the problems and processes of economic development in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America has emerged only over the past five
decades. This biography of the subject of economic development will
focus on the essential ideas in the evolution of development
thought and policy over the subject's half-century of life. In
concise form and avoiding undue technicality, it highlights the
influence of development theory on policymaking and on the mixed
record of successes and failures in promoting development efforts.
The interpretation of theory, policy, and the lessons of experience
are covered in three periods: early development economics of the
1950s-60s; orthodox reaction of the 1970s-80s; and the new
development economics of the 1980s-90s. Gerald Meier-one of the
world's most prominent leading thinkers in the economics of
development - interprets the past treatment of development problems
with the present and future in mind. He re-interprets the past two
generations of development economists in a contemporary voice. And
in a forward-looking fashion, the book's perspectives should make
the next generation of development problems-and development
economists-more intelligible. The reader is invited to consider
whether development economists really know how to put matters
right.
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