Paradigms of Social Change: Modernisation, Development, Transformation, Evolution

Preface
Waltraud Schelkle and Wolf-Hagen Krauth
Introduction: Paradigms lost and found

Modernization

Johannes Berger
Modernization Theory and Economic Growth

Göran Therborn
"Modernization" Discourses, their Limitations, and their Alternatives

Hans Joas
Comment on Göran Therborn

Andreas Wimmer
Modernization as Transformation

Summary: Modernization

Transformation

Charles Tilly
Struggle, Democratization, and Political Transformation

János Kornai
The System Paradigm

Andreas Ryll
Reflections on János Kornai's Notion of a "System Paradigm"

Helmut Wiesenthal
A Paradigm Destroyed. On the Opportunity of Revising Theories of Institutional Transformation

Summary: Transformation

Development

T.N. Srinivasan
Evolution of Development Theory and Strategy: Changing Perceptions of the Role of the Market, State and Foreign Trade

Ulrich Menzel
States Against Markets: Comments on T.N. Srinivasan

Waltraud Schelkle
The Development Paradigm in Economics: Comment on T.N. Srinivasan

Charles Gore
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries

Summary:Development

Evolution

Peter .J Richerson and Richard Boyd
Evolution; The Darwinian Theory of Social Change

Max Miller
Why Darwinism Fails in Explaining Social and Cultural Evolution - Comments on Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd

Andre Kieserling
Theories of Social Change - A Remark on the Status of Evolutionary Theories

Uwe Cantner
The Evolutionary Paradigm in the Social Sciences - All Economist's Point of View

W. G. Runciman
More than a Metaphor: the neo-Darwinian Paradigm for the Explanation of Social Change

Summary:Evolution

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