Polly Hill's provocative new book examines the disastrous gulf that
currently separates development economics from its sister
discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the
rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West
Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first,
polemical part of her book how very unreliable and western-biased
are the assumptions on which most development economists base their
theoretical work. She shows in particular that misleading official
statistics are handled uncritically, that the significance of
innate rural inequality is consistently ignored and the revered
concepts such as the 'population explosion' are in anthropological
terms largely meaningless. The longer second part of the book
illustrates the enormous relevance and potential of economic
anthropology for economists by looking in turn at the true
complexity of farming households, labour and inheritance; at debt,
social stratification and economic inequality, and at problems
connected with the sale of land, the role of women and migration.
Taken overall, Development Economics on Trial represents a powerful
and urgent plea for co-operation.
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