The Rise and Fall of Development Theory - Softcover

Leys, Colin

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9780852553503: The Rise and Fall of Development Theory

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ISBN 10: 0852553501 ISBN 13: 9780852553503

Publisher: James Currey Ltd, 1996

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This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. Leys suggests that Africa has some lessons to teach about the meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale. North America: Indiana U Press

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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.

About the Author:

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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