Biography of a subject : an evolution of development economics
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Biography of a subject : an evolution of development economics
Oxford University Press, 2005
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index
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ISBN 9780195170023
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Gerald Meier - one of the leading thinkers in the economics of development - interprets the past treatment of development problems with the present and future in mind.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195170030
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The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that Adam Smith was the first "development economist", the systematic study of the problems and processes of economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has emerged only over the past five decades. This biography of the subject of economic development will focus on
the essential ideas in the evolution of development thought and policy over the subject's half-century of life. In concise form and avoiding undue technicality, it highlights the influence of development
theory on policymaking and on the mixed record of successes and failures in promoting development efforts. The interpretation of theory, policy, and the lessons of experience are covered in three periods: early development economics of the 1950s-60s; orthodox reaction of the 1970s-80s; and the new development economics of the 1980s-90s. Gerald Meier-one of the world's most prominent leading thinkers in the economics of development - interprets the past treatment of development problems with
the present and future in mind. He re-interprets the past two generations of development economists in a contemporary voice. And in a forward-looking fashion, the book's perspectives should make the
next generation of development problems-and development economists-more intelligible. The reader is invited to consider whether development economists really know how to put matters right.
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