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Theories of development : contentions, arguments, alternatives / Richard Peet, Elaine Hartwick.
LIBRA HD75 .P43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peet, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Dependency.
- Capitalism.
- Marxian economics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Widely adopted, this unique text critically evaluates the leading theories of international economic development, from classical economic and sociological models to Marxist, poststructuralist, and feminist perspectives. No other book provides such comprehensive coverage or links the theories as incisively to contemporary world events and policy debates. Reexamining neoliberal conceptions of economic growth, the authors show what a more just and democratic form of development might look like today.
- Revised to reflect evolving global economic realities.
- Updated with the latest concepts and empirical data.
- Additional chapter on classical and neoclassical economics.
- Increased coverage of real-world policy issues.
- Now more accessible to undergraduates.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Development 1
- The Geography of Development 4
- Measuring Growth and Development 6
- Criticisms of Development Measures 10
- The Face of Poverty 12
- Contentions over Development 13
- Part I Conventional Theories of Development 21
- Chapter 2 Classical and Neoclassical Economics 23
- Enlightenment Origins of Political Economy 24
- The British Enlightenment 26
- The Classical Economists 29
- Adam Smith: Beginnings 30
- Utilitarianism 33
- Ricardian Calculations 35
- Mill's Ethical Economics 37
- List's Skepticism 40
- Critique of Classical Economics 41
- Neoclassical Economics 45
- Critique of Neoclassical Economics 48
- Chapter 3 From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism 53
- Dynamic Analysis 53
- Keynesian Economics 56
- Keynesianism and Social Democracy 57
- The Developmental State 63
- Structuralism and Import Substitution 64
- Development Economics: Balanced and Unbalanced Growth 68
- The Counterrevolution in Development Economics 74
- Crisis in Keynesian Economics 76
- Neoliberalism 78
- Neoliberalism in Economic Policy 84
- World Bank Policy 87
- Benevolent Consensus 91
- Millennium Development Goals 94
- Debt Relief 97
- Critique of Neoliberal Development 98
- Chapter 4 Development as Modernization 103
- Naturalism 104
- Rationalism 107
- Civilized Development 110
- Structural Functionalism 113
- The Parsonian Synthesis 116
- Critique of Structural Functionalism 119
- Sociological Modernization Theory 121
- Economic Modernization Theory 123
- Psychocultural Theories of Modernization 124
- Historical Stages of Growth 126
- Modernization Surfaces 129
- Critique of the Modernization Approach 131
- Return of Modernization 134
- Critique of Sachs 137
- Critique of Modernization 139
- Part II Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development 141
- Chapter 5 Marxism, Socialism, and Development 143
- Idealism and Materialism 143
- Dialectics 146
- Production as the Transformation of Nature 147
- Production as Social Relations 148
- Capital 149
- Mode of Production 154
- Development as Social Transformation 156
- Structural Marxism 159
- Imperialism 161
- Dependency Theory 166
- World Systems Theory 172
- Regulation Theory 175
- Criticisms of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories 181
- Socialist Development in the USSR 186
- Cuba 189
- Venezuela 192
- Conclusion: Development in Contention 195
- Chapter 6 Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism 197
- The Enlightenment and Its Critics 199
- Post-Enlightenment Criticisms 202
- Power-Truth-Knowledge 204
- Postcolonialism 208
- Intellectual Dependency Theory 212
- Rethinking Development 214
- The Poststructural Turn in Development Studies 218
- Encountering Development 221
- Postdevelopmentalism 227
- Conclusion: Countercritique 230
- Chapter 7 Feminist Theories of Development 240
- Feminist Epistemology 243
- Feminist Criticisms of Development Theory 250
- Women, Development, Theory 252
- Women in Development 254
- Women and Development 259
- Gender and Development 267
- Women, Environment, and Development 269
- Postmodernism and Development 271
- Critique: A Failure of Nerve? 272
- Part III Critical Modernism 275
- Chapter 8 Critical Modernism and Democratic Development 277
- Alternatives 278
- Critical Modernism 280
- Democratic Development 282
- Ethics 285
- Social Movements 286
- Linkages 287
- Radical Democracy 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781606230664
- 1606230662
- 9781606230657
- 1606230654
- OCLC:
- 255890125
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