Leys, C: Rise and Fall of Development Theory
Gewicht:
408 g
Format:
234x153x17 mm
Beschreibung:
This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The ex-colonial 'third world' for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the post-war 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.
I. Development Theory1. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory2. Underdevelopment and Dependency3. Samuel Huntington and the End of Classical Modernization Theory4. Conflict and Convergence in Development TheoryII. Development Theory and Africa5. African Economic Development in Theory and Practice6. The State and the Crisis of Simple Commodity Production in Africa7. The Kenya Debate8. The Kenya Debate Ten Years On9. From Ghana to Namibia: The Meaning of African IndependenceIndex
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