
The Poverty of Development Economics
Deepak Lal(Author)
Institute of Economic Affairs (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 20. July 2002
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-255-36519-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a classic IEA text, first Published in 1983, but revised and expanded in 1997. Its critique of that type of 'development economics' highly influential in the early 1980s, which the author branded the 'dirigiste dogma', proved extremely controversial in the first few years of the book's life. Professor Lal concluded that the demise of the dogma would be beneficial to the health of 'both economics and the economies of developing countries'. The history of the last twenty years has demonstrated the force of the Lal critique. The dogma in its old form has gone, as Professor Lal shows in a postscript that brings the original text up to date both in terms of statistics and in terms of the history of ideas. Nevertheless, as he warns, dirigiste tendencies have not disappeared, but are emerging in new guises.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
291 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-255-36519-2 (9780255365192)
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