The Rise & Fall of Development Theory (Repost)
The Rise & Fall of Development Theory
Indiana University Press | ISBN 025321016X | 2005-11-14 | PDF | 224 pages | 26.61 MB
Indiana University Press | ISBN 025321016X | 2005-11-14 | PDF | 224 pages | 26.61 MB
This book is a "stock-taking" of development theory at the end of the 20th century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The postcolonial "third world" for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the postwar 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.