| Description |
xv, 368 pages : illustrations, ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Arguments and Actions in Social Theorizing -- 2. The Rise of a Social Science of Humankind -- 3. Adam Smith and the Spontaneous Order of the Marketplace --4. Marx and the Dialectics of Historical Change -- 5. Durkheim and the Evolution of the Division of Labour --6. The Transitional Work of Weber -- 7. The Divisions of Intellectual Labour of the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 -- 8. The Legacies of the Colonial Era: Structures, Institutions and Images -- 9. Decolonization, Cold War and the Construction of Modernization Theory -- 10. The Development Experience of Latin America: Structuralism and Dependency Theory -- 11. The Pursuit of Effective Nationstatehood: The Work of the Institutionalist Development Theorists --12. The Critical Work of Marxist Development Theory --13. The Assertion of Third World Solidarity: Global Development Approaches -- 14. The Affirmation of the Role of the Market: Metropolitan Neoliberalism in the 1980s |
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15. Global System Interdependence: The New Structural Analyses of the Dynamics of Industrial-capitalism --16. Agent-centred Analyses of the Diversity of Forms-of-life -- 17. The Formal Character of a New General Approach to Development -- 18. A New Substantive Focus: Elucidating the Dynamics of Complex Change |
| Summary |
In this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the nature of change have led to different lines of policy advice. In doing so, the author demonstrates how the various contemporary approaches to development draw upon strategies of enquiry which are lodged deep within the intellectual traditions of the modern world. The author's approach is based on the premise that the reader can only fully grasp the live issues and debates surrounding development through an understanding of the linkages with the broader frameworks of social theory. -- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-359) and index |
| Subject |
Economic development.
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| LC no. |
95052581 |
| ISBN |
0631195548 |
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0631195556 (paperback) |
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