Westernizing the Third World : the eurocentricity of economic development theories / Ozay Mehmet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehmet, Ozay, author.

Mehmet O Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Mercantile system.

Ethnocentrism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.Significant new additions include:* Asian values and development* democracy, human rights and good governance* globalization and development* boxed summaries of key arguments and glossary.Westernizing the Third World identifies the mainstream economic theories which have been employed in developing countries. The author examines these and explains why Eurocentric concepts are not suitable for the developing world.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of boxes; Preface to the second edition; Westernizing the Third World; Classical (pre-1914) economic development theories; Postwar neo-classical theories, 1945 1973; Model-building and macro-planning; The new economic order: false start 1973; The latest state of the art: economic development theorizing since 1980; Conclusion and future agenda; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-191) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-62646-0

0-203-25558-5

1-280-32996-3

1-134-62647-9

0-203-05551-9

9786610329960

9780203055519

OCLC:

70743369