The many faces of socioeconomic change

Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. This work surveys narratives of how development occurs, starting with early evolutionary models and moving on to recent types of development theory, outlining the main long term changes in how socioeconomic d...

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Other Authors: Toye, J. F. J., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2017.
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to ideas of development
  • Evolutionary social progress, 1762-1848
  • Development within the limits of order, 1820-1870
  • Development by imitation, 1839-1947
  • Liberal development, 1925-1946
  • Colonial development by intersector labour transfer, 1950-1969
  • Development as take-off, 1950-1975
  • Development as economic growth, 1956-
  • Development as doctrines doubted, 1951-1977
  • Development with a human face, 1980-
  • Double-edged development, 1767-
  • The last grand narrative of development, 1938- .