Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment

Part 1 Theory and method in economic development: development - which way now?, Amartya K. Sen; the misconceptions of "developmental economics", Deepak Lal; conventional foolishness and overall ignorance - current approaches to global transformation and development, Gerald Helleiner; toward a non ethnocentric theory of development - alternative conceptions from the Third World, Howard H. Wiarda. Part 2 Economic development and underdevelopment in a historical perspective: capitalism, Dudley Dillard; on the political economy of backwardness, Paul A. Baran; the development of underdevelopment, Andre Gunder Frank; perspectives on underdevelopment, Frank, the modes of production school, and Amin, David F. Ruccio, Lawrence H. Simon; plant imperialism, Lucile Brockway; the modernization of underdevelopment - El Salvador, 1858-1931, E. Bradford Burns. Part 3 Development, democracy and contemporary international institutions: revolution in Easten Europe, Andre Gunder Frank; options for tacking the external debt problem, Robert Devlin; defunding Latin America - reverse transfers by the multilateral lending agencies, Richard E. Feinberg. Part 4 Agriculture in development: in search of a development paradigm, Gene Ellis; the new development economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz; the peasant economy, Alexander Schejtman; the political economy of Third World food imports, Derek Byerlee. Part 5 Industry in development: industry and underdevelopment reexamined, R. B. Sutcliffe; global feminization through flexible labour, Guy Standing; the political economy of privatization in developing countries, Henry Bienen, John Waterbury; can the rest of Asia emulate the NICs, Clive Hamilton; the state and industrial strategy, Helen Shapiro, Lance Taylor. Part 6 The human dimension of development: the human dilemma of development, Denis Goulet, Charles Wilber; survival strategies and power amongst the poorest, Tony Beck; into another jungle - the final journey of the Matacos, Ariel Dorfman; women and rural development policies, Deniz Kandiyoti; what really matters - human development, Peter Gall. Part 7 What is to be done?: "development".. .or liberation, Denis Goulet; pedagogy of the oppressed, Paulo Freire; human development, Keith Griffin, John Knight; the arms race and development, Inga Thorsson; conserving nature, decreasing debt, John Cartwright; beyond capitalism and socialism in Africa, Richard L. Sklar.