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Theories of Development by Richard Peet & Elaine Hartwick
Genre(s): Business & Economics, Development, Economic Development, Social Science, Human Geography
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Format: Paperback
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Condition: Used
Year: 1999
The stakes involved in development debates are enormous. While development can use the productive resources of society to improve the living conditionsof the world’s most vulnerable people, it can also form the basis of intense manipulative power on behalf of elites. This important new text surveys theleading theories and models of economic and social development. Chapters examine sociological, economic, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist, andradical democratic approaches, as well as an array of development models including modernization, dependency, and neoliberalism. Reaching conclusionsat odds with much of the recent literature, this volume is critical of neoliberal, market-driven economic growth, arguing instead that an alternative, democratic form of development remains a viable possibility.
