The rise & fall of development theory

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The rise & fall of development theory

Colin Leys

EAEP , Indiana University Press , James Currey, 1996

  • : us : hard
  • : us : pbk
  • : uk : hard
  • : uk : pbk

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Volume

: us : pbk ISBN 9780253210166

Description

"He has this wonderful and rare capacity to delineate the most complex of arguments in the most limpid prose. He never takes refuge in jargon. He demolishes pretentiousness. He is disarmingly honest. He hits you between the eyes. He is not afraid to be a lone voice as, increasingly, nowadays he is, the still small voice of humane sanity in an increasingly barbarous and market-oriented world. He makes immediate sense to anybody voting marginally to the left of Genghis Khan, Mrs. Thatcher or Newt Gingrich." -John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 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.

Table of Contents

I. Development Theory 1. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory 2. Underdevelopment and Dependency 3. Samuel Huntington and the End of Classical Modernization Theory 4. Conflict and Convergence in Development Theory II. Development Theory and Africa 5. African Economic Development in Theory and Practice 6. The State and the Crisis of Simple Commodity Production in Africa 7. The Kenya Debate 8. The Kenya Debate Ten Years On 9. From Ghana to Namibia: The Meaning of African Independence Index
Volume

: uk : pbk ISBN 9780852553503

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He makes immediate sense to anybody voting marginally to the left of Genghis Khan, Mrs Thatcher or Newt Gingrich.' - John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. Leys suggests that Africa has some lessons to teach about the meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale. North America: Indiana U Press

Table of Contents

  • The rise and fall of development theory
  • Samuel Huntington and the end of classical modernization theory
  • underdevelopment and dependency
  • conflict and convergence in development theory
  • African economic development in theory and practice
  • the state and the crisis of simple commodity production in Africa
  • the Kenya debate
  • the Kenya debate ten years on
  • from Ghana to Namibia - the meaning of African independence.
Volume

: uk : hard ISBN 9780852553596

Description

This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. The author suggests that the African experience has some lessons to teach about the real meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale.

Table of Contents

  • The rise and fall of development theory
  • Samuel Huntington and the end of classical modernization theory
  • underdevelopment and dependency
  • conflict and convergence in development theory
  • African economic development in theory and practice
  • the state and the crisis of simple commodity production in Africa
  • the Kenya debate
  • the Kenya debate ten years on
  • from Ghana to Namibia - the meaning of African independence.

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