The Rise and Fall of Development Theory - Softcover

Leys, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025321016X ISBN 13: 9780253210166

Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR, 1996

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Lucid and controversial critique of development theory by a well-known practitioner-scholar.

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COLIN LEYS is Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. His Underdevelopment in Kenya, published in 1977, was one of the most influential texts of the time.

COLIN LEYS is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His Underdevelopment in Kenya, published in 1977, was one of the most influential texts of the time.

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This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The ex-colonial 'third world' for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the post-war 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.

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• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 025321016X
• ISBN 13: 9780253210166
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar