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| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment in the Global South Justin van der Merwe, Nicole Dodd, 2019-01-07 This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development. Despite the entrance of emerging powers and new forms of aid, trade and investment, international political-economic practices still support well-established systems of capital accumulation, to the detriment of the global South. Global asymmetrical accumulation is maintained by ‘affective’ (consent-forming hegemonic practices) and ‘infrastructural’ (uneven economic exchanges) labours and by power networks. The message for developing countries is that ‘robust’ GBMs can facilitate human development and development is constrained by spatiotemporal limitations. This work theorizes that aid and foreign direct investment should be viewed with caution and that in the global South these investments should not automatically be assumed to be drivers of development. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy Of Underdevelopment Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 1989 The Development Problems Of Third World Countries Are Analysed, Using Both Marxist And Neo-Keynesian Methods, And Drawing Illustrations From Among Third World Countries. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment S. B. D. de Silva, 2012-05-23 First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality. Viewing underdevelopment as a problem in the non-transformation to capitalism, this analysis is in terms of the character of the dominant capital and of the dominant classes. Underdevelopment thus encompasses the ‘traditional’ peasant economy and also the export sector where the ‘modernizing’ influence of colonialism was felt. The book finally considers how the contemporary internationalization of capital affected the economies of the Third World. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment Charles K. Wilber, 1988 |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Development and Underdevelopment Mitchell A. Seligson, John T. Passé-Smith, 2003 Presenting both classic pieces and the most up-to-date arguments in the debates about issues of economic growth and inequality, this is a guide to understanding the causes and dynamics of persistent income gap between rich and poor countries, as well as rich and poor within the poor countries. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Tamás Szentes, 1971 Analysis of internal and external economic implications of underdevelopment of developing countries in the light of socialist economic theory - critically examines statistical methods used to classify underdevelopment, covers the human resources and natural resources factor, insufficiency of capital formation, the effects of trade, changes in international division of labour and foreign investments on economic development, dependence on the role of developed countries (particularly capitalist countries) and suggests ways of overcoming underdevelopment. Reference. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability Jorge Nef, International Development Research Centre (Canada), 1999 Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The global political economy of development and underdevelopment (Second Edition) |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Political Econ of Growth Paul A. Baran, 1968 One of the most influential studies ever written in the field of development economics, this book has, since first publication in 1957, bred a whole school of followers who are producing further works along the lines indicated by Baran. Concerned with the generation and use of economic surplus, it analyzes from this point of view both the advanced and the underdeveloped countries. A work in political economy rather than solely in economics, this book treats the economic transformation of society as one facet of a total social and political evolution. |
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| political economy of underdevelopment: The Geography of Underdevelopment Dean Forbes, 2010-11-26 First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material conditions. The work is primarily concerned with theories, though it does contain much empirical material drawn from throughout the Third World. The book examines the emergence of theories of development historically and considers the various contemporary theoretical ‘schools’, both Marxist and non-Marxist. It goes on to consider four aspects of development which are of particular interest to geographers, namely the world economy, regional imbalances, the human-nature theme and the analysis of urban space, and concludes by suggesting some directions for future research. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 1982-03-31 An overview of third-world problems, making use of Marxist and neo-Kiynesian methods of analysis. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment S. B. DeSilva, S. B. D. De Silva, 1984-01-01 |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Out from Underdevelopment James H. Mittelman, 1988-07-08 |
| political economy of underdevelopment: A History of Underdevelopment and Political Economy of Inflation in Sri Lanka Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana, Chandana Aluthge, 2020-08-10 The book provides a new conceptualisation of inflation in underdeveloped economies, through Sri Lanka’s historical experience. It outlines a general theory of nationalisms in their diverse manifestations across the world, within a historical perspective of capitalist development and underdevelopment. The book, therefore, seeks to capture the production mode holistically, within both its infrastructural and superstructural levels probing their interactions. The theoretical structure through which inflation is analysed synthesises the theory of unproductive labour and Marxian theory of prices of production with labour surplus theory of late Dr. S. B. D. De Silva in the context of underdevelopment. In this light, Professor David Laibman’s Allocation Problem is resolved within a Marxist framework to provide an operational significance to the theory and its application. In the same vein the book also provides a new theoretical interpretation of Sri Lanka’s historical development from the British period onwards through application of theories of capitalist development and surplus labour. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment Charles K. Wilber, Kenneth P. Jameson, 1992 A reader intended for courses in economics or political science departments on development, political economy, or economic development issues, this book takes a critical look at historical and present day aspects of economic development. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Development Robert H. Bates, 2020-10-29 Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission. Bates addresses the political origins of prosperity and security and uncovers the root causes of under-development. Without the state there can be no development, but those who are endowed with the power of the state often use its power to appropriate the wealth and property of those they rule. When do those with power use it to safeguard rather than to despoil? Bates explores this question by analyzing motivations behind the behaviour of governments in the developing world, drawing on historical and anthropological insights, game theory, and his own field research in developing nations. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Leap Into Modernity - Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943-1980 Adam Leszczyński, 2017 This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of the market» as a panacea for underdevelopment. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Dependent Accumulation Andre Gunder Frank, 1979 Examines underdevelopment in Asia, Africa and Latin America through the analysis of unequal means of production and trade relations within the process of capital formation. Analyses how differential transformation of productive, social and political relations have led to capitalist development, and challenges classical and neo-classical development theories, international division of labour, doctrines of comparative advantage and free trade, etc. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Zaire, the Political Economy of Underdevelopment Guy Gran, Galen Hull, 1979 |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment Charles K. Wilber, 1979 Monographic compilation of essays on economic policy of economic development and underdevelopment - covers methodological problems of development theories, historical perspectives, causes of economic disparities in developing countries (multinational enterprises, world economic system, etc.), development policies, relation to rural development and industrialization, income distribution and the need for a new international economic order. Bibliography pp. 464 to 466, graphs, references and statistical tables. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The National System of Political Economy Friedrich List, 1904 |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of International Agreements Florian Kiesow Cortez, 2021-09-25 This volume analyzes international agreements from a political economy perspective. In four essays, it raises the question of whether domestic institutions help explain if countries join international agreements, and in case they do, what type of international organization they join. The book examines how specific democratic design elements channel and mediate domestic demands directed at politicians, and how under certain circumstances entering international agreements helps politicians navigate these demands to their benefit. The volume also distinguishes between different types of international instruments with a varying expected constraining effect upon member states, and empirically tests if this matters for incentives to join. The volume addresses scholars, students, and practitioners interested in a better understanding of how the shape of domestic institutions affects politicians’ incentives to enter into binding international agreements. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America Andre Gunder Frank, 1967 Originally published: Monthly Review Press, 1967. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Institutions Curse Victor Menaldo, 2016-08-25 Debunks the view that natural resources lead to terrible outcomes by demonstrating that oil and minerals are actually a blessing. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries Piers Blaikie, 2016-05-20 First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of uncertainty and make explicit the underlying assumptions in the debate about soil erosion. It also rejects the notion that soil erosion is a politically neutral issue and argues that conservation requires fundamental social change. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and developmental studies. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Socialism and Underdevelopment Ken Post, Philip Wright, 2010-11-26 In this book, first published in 1989, Ken Post and Phil Wright provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. Pointing out that all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century have occurred in underdeveloped peripheral capitalist countries, they focus on the relationship between socialism and underdevelopment. They bring together the insights of both development theory and the political economy of socialism, and draw upon their direct experience of the state socialist societies as diverse as North Korea, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Capitalism, Development and Empowerment of Labour Hartmut Elsenhans, 2021-09-08 The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue – it is a class issue, and this book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a central position in the study of the social sciences. Offering nothing less than a reconciliation of Marxian, Keynesian and neoclassical economics, the work opens with a discussion of the key, interconnected economic concepts which help us to understand capitalism: price, income, profit, value, growth and crisis. Prices reflect income distribution and therefore class relations, and the chapters show that the very emergence of capitalism resulted from mass empowerment of the so-called lower orders. Profit is always available if entrepreneurs spend on net investment and create incomes for additional labour; this, in turn, requires expanding demand, and so therefore profit depends on rising mass incomes. Conversely, underdevelopment is the result of the destitution and disempowerment of the masses. In the Global South today, it is clear that enormous riches go hand in hand with widespread misery and poverty because the market does not transform wealth into the kind of investment that might benefit all. This book argues that the new wealth triggered by productivity increases has enabled the rich to liberate themselves from the capitalist constraints of competition and waste their new wealth in the form of rents. The main threat today is, in fact, the globalisation of rent. The text makes a point for a progressive counter strategy: capitalist structures that empower labour need to be transferred to the Global South. This requires political and economic efforts towards empowering labour in the Global South. This book demonstrates the analytical power of political economy for all social scientists and will be invaluable reading for economists, political scientists and sociologists in particular. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney, 2018-11-27 The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping the great divergence between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Rethinking Development Economics Ha-Joon Chang, 2003 This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society Manning Marable, 2000-04 An updated edition of Manning Marable's classic--considered one of the best studies of race and class. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Latin America: Underdevelopment Or Revolution Andre Gunder Frank, 1970 In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in his view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World. This colonial structure penetrates everywhere in Latin America, forming and transforming all its features in obedience to its own imperatives and thereby imposing upon the region those characteristic features of poverty and backwardness which are not primarily the remnants of an ancient feudal past but the direct products of capitalism. This development of underdevelopment will persist, Frank argues, until the people of Latin America free themselves from world capitalism by means of revolution. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The State And Underdevelopment In Spanish America Douglas Friedman, 2019-07-11 Challenging the dependency theory approach to the origin of underdevelopment in Spanish America, this book argues that internal political and economic factors led the nations of the region to become dependent and underdeveloped during the nineteenth century. Dr. Friedman focuses on Peru and Argentina in the aftermath of their wars of independence to show how underdevelopment and dependency resulted from a crisis of the state brought about by the loss of legitimacy of Spanish colonial rule. Class conflicts had been effectively managed by the colonial state; its collapse, Dr. Friedman demonstrates, created conditions of intense inter- and intra-class conflicts, chiefly political in nature, which weak post-independence governments found impossible to restrain. Left with little authority, legitimacy, or control over internal resources, the fledging Peruvian and Argentine states turned to external sources for the capabilities with which to begin the process of consolidating their internal power. By the last half of the nineteenth century, both Peru and Argentina had chosen a course that led to their integration into the international economy as dependent nations. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Communication Vincent Mosco, 1996-10-14 What is political economy and how can it be applied to the study of media communication? The Political Economy of Communication is the definitive critical overview of the discipline for students of the social sciences. It explains in detail the analytic tools that political economy can apply to today's increasingly global and technological information society. Mosco presents an historical overview of the discipline and defines political economy by its focus on the relation between the production, distribution and consumption of communication in historical and cultural context. This comprehensive analysis of the 'commodity form' is communication includes an examination of print, broadcast and new electronic media, the role and function of the audience, and the problem of social control. It concludes by addressing the relationship of political economy to the increasingly important fields of policy studies and cultural studies. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Rita Cruise O'Brien, 1979-05 Monograph (essays) on the economic policy of underdevelopment and dependence in Senegal - analyses historical origins and later trends, impact of colonialism on the agrarian structure and social change, role of France and Lebanese entrepreneurship, the urban area informal sector in Dakar, wages in the industrial sector, education and social conflict, capitalist farming, relations between the ruling class and the peasantry, etc., and includes an annotated bibliography pp. 228 to 274 on dependence in Africa. Maps and references. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Africa's Development Impasse Doctor Stefan Andreasson, 2013-07-04 Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Development, Capitalism, and Rent Hannes Warnecke-Berger, 2021-01-02 This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans’ ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system. Hartmut Elsenhans shows that capitalist growth depends on rising mass incomes and on the strength of labor unions and their bargaining power. This alternative approach challenges mainstream assumptions on capitalism, growth, and development by both leading leftist authors, such as David Harvey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank or Samir Amin, as well as by neoclassical economists and western institutionalist political and social scientists. Hartmut Elsenhans offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics of capitalism as well as the prospects for development. This Festschrift brings together his major contributions on these topics that were initially never or only published in German or French. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti Jean-Germain Gros, 2012-02-20 Failed states are a huge problem in international relations, threatening world order in a number of ways. Conflicts in failed states often spill unto neighbouring states, failed states make for unreliable partners in the resolution of global social problems such as poverty and AIDS, and failed states magnify the effects of natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. In response to the multiple threats posed by failed states, working states, sometimes acting alone sometimes in concert with others, have undertaken military operations, often under the rubric of humanitarian intervention. This book is a historical study of state failure, underdevelopment and foreign intervention in light of the Haitian experience with all three. Its main thesis is that state failure has been a recurring feature of Haitian political life for much of the country’s history, and this inability of the Haitians to craft a viable political order is at the heart of Haitian poverty and underdevelopment. Haitian state-making failure is underwritten by a complex array of deleterious local and external institutions, as well as natural constraints, including class, lack of elite cohesion, geography, population growth, the social origins of the Haitian polity, imperialism, and technology. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: The Politics of Property Rights Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer, Armando Razo, 2003-05-26 This book addresses a puzzle in political economy: why is it that political instability does not necessarily translate into economic stagnation or collapse? In order to address this puzzle, it advances a theory about property rights systems in many less developed countries. In this theory, governments do not have to enforce property rights as a public good. Instead, they may enforce property rights selectively (as a private good), and share the resulting rents with the group of asset holders who are integrated into the government. Focusing on Mexico, this book explains how the property rights system was constructed during the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911) and then explores how this property rights system either survived, or was reconstructed. The result is an analytic economic history of Mexico under both stability and instability, and a generalizable framework about the interaction of political and economic institutions. |
| political economy of underdevelopment: Dependence and Underdevelopment: Latin America's Political Economy James D. Cockcroft, Andre Gunder Frank, Dale L. Johnson, 1972 This book challenges all of the most commonly held ideas regarding underdevelopment. The process of development, say the authors, is not a matter of higher Gross National Products, which to the contrary, often serve to increase a country's long-run underdevelopment. Meaningful development is a political as well as an economic process, which improves the quality of life for the people of a country. The authors argue that underdevelopment, far from being an original or natural condition of the countries of the so-called Third World, is a condition imposed by the international expansion of capitalism. The authors go on dispute some common assumptions regarding industrialization, economic aid, and the allegedly progressive nature of the international expansion of capitalism. The authors go on to dispute some common assumptions regarding industrialization, economic aid, and the allegedly progressive nature of native bourgeoisies. The theory of development and underdevelopment presented in this book is supported by case studies of Mexico, Venezuela, Chile and other Latin American nations, but the implications extend to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the internal colonies of the United States. |
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