The George Beckford papers / selected and introducted by Kari Levit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckford, George L.

Contributor:

Levit, Kari.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Caribbean Area.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.

Caribbean Area.

Economic conditions.

Caribbean Area--Economic integration.

Physical Description:

lxxi, 468 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Mona, Jamaica : Canoe Press, 2000.

Summary:

George Beckford left the Caribbean region, and the underdeveloped world in general, an extraordinary body of work that spanned his career as economics professor, advisor to governments, and consultant to international organizations. "George Beckford's work is characterized by a remarkable consistency of purpose and vision . . . This collection presents the unfolding of George Beckford's work from agricultural economics to political economy, to the social economy of 'man space', to the cultural roots of Caribbean creativity and a vision of one independent, sovereign and self-reliant Caribbean nation . . . His purpose was to reveal the legacy of dispossession originating in the slave plantation experience of African people in the New World; to 'free the mind' from the internalization of attitudes of inferiority and 'Afro-Saxon' mimicry. His vision was the affirmation of the culture of 'overcoming' rooted in the Caribbean 'peasantry' and the land". Introduction

Contents:

Part I Economic Planning, Agricultural Development, and Caribbean Regional Integration

1 The West Indian Banana Industry: the Scope for Rationalization and Regional Collaboration 2

2 Issues in the Windward-Jamaica Banana War 22

3 Crisis in the West Indian Banana Industry 33

4 Agricultural Organization and Planning in Cuba 37

5 A Caribbean View of Cuba 44

6 Planning in the Caribbean under Capitalism and Socialism 57

7 British Honduras and Regional Economic Integration 68

8 Intra-Caribbean Agricultural Trade 71

9 Land Reform for the Betterment of Caribbean Peoples 91

10 Agro 21 and the Future 109

Part II Towards an Appropriate Paradigm for Caribbean Development

11 The Growth of Major Tropical Export Crop Industries 122

12 Agricultural Development in 'Traditional' and 'Peasant' Economies: a Review Article 137

13 The Schultz "High Pay-off Input" Model 148

14 The Induced Development Model 151

15 Comparative Rural Systems, Development and Underdevelopment 158

16 Toward an Appropriate Theoretical Framework for Agricultural Development Planning and Policy 175

17 The Economics of Agricultural Resource Use and Development 186

18 Persistent Poverty: Possibilities for Change and Transformation 217

Part III Beyond Economics: Issues of Race, Class and Black Dispossession

19 Social Knowledge and Social Change in the Caribbean 234

20 The Plantation System and the Penetration of International Capitalism 239

21 Institutional Foundations of Resource Underdevelopment in the Caribbean 242

22 Plantations, Peasants and Proletariat in the West Indies 260

23 Emigration and Demographic Change 275

24 The Social Economy of Bauxite in the Jamaican Man-Space 288

25 Plantation Capitalism and Black Dispossession 323

26 The Future of Plantation Society in Comparative Perspective 336

27 Small Garden, Bitter Weed: a Postscript - the IMF, Democratic Socialism and Zig-Zag Politics: Jamaica, 1976-1977 347

Part IV Black Affirmation, Cultural Sovereignty and Caribbean Self-reliance

28 Origins, Development and Future of the Jamaican Banana Industry 352

29 Education as an Instrument for Development 359

30 Black Man and Society: a Comment on the Black Writer in the New World 364

31 Sounds and Pressures of Black Survival 368

32 Portrait of the Jamaican Male 382

33 Cultural Sovereignty and Economic Development 399

34 Sovereignty and Self-reliance: the Economic Implications 419

35 The Struggle for a Relevant Economics 438.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography : pages 446-455.

ISBN:

9768125403

OCLC:

50123156