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The Development Dilemma - Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History (Hardcover)
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The Development Dilemma - Security, Prosperity, and a Return to History (Hardcover)
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Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's past
Today's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second
World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently
attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of
the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who
study the developing world in order to learn how development can be
achieved lack the data to do so. In The Development Dilemma, Robert
Bates responds to this challenge by turning to history, focusing on
England and France. By the end of the eighteenth century, England
stood poised to enter "the great transformation." France by
contrast verged on state failure, and life and property were
insecure. Probing the histories of these countries, Bates uncovers
a powerful tension between prosperity and security: both may be
necessary for development, he argues, but efforts to achieve the
one threaten the achievement of the other. A fundamental tension
pervades the political economy of development. Bates also argues
that while the creation of a central hierarchy--a state--may be
necessary to the achievement of development, it is not sufficient.
What matters is how the power of the state is used. France and
England teach us that in some settings the seizure and
redistribution of wealth--not its safeguarding and fostering--is a
winning political strategy. These countries also suggest the
features that mark those settings--features that appear in nations
throughout the developing world. Returning to the present, Bates
applies these insights to the world today. Drawing on fieldwork in
Zambia and Kenya, and data from around the globe, he demonstrates
how the past can help us to understand the performance of nations
in today's developing world.
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