Theories of Development

Type

Book

Authors

Peet Phd, Richard

Hartwick PhD, Elaine

Peet, Richard

ISBN 10

1572304898

ISBN 13

9781572304895

Tags

Development & Growth, Child Psychology, Earth Sciences, Human Geography, History & Theory, Business Development, Geography, Political History, Developmental Psychology

Abstract

This important new text surveys the leading theories and models of economic and social development and reaches conclusions at odds with much of the recent literature on development.

Description

"The stakes involved in development debates are enormous. While development can use the productive resources of society to improve the living conditions of the world's most vulnerable people, it can also form the basis of intense manipulative power on behalf of elites. This important new text surveys the leading theories and models of economic and social development. Critical of neoliberal, market-driven economic growth, the authors argue instead that an alternative, democratic form of development remains a viable possibility. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Biblio Notes

Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Peet; Elaine R Hartwick
ISBN: 1572304898 9781572304895
OCLC Number: 41176745
Description: xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: Introduction --
Economic theories of growth and development --
Sociological theories of modernization --
Marxist and neo-Marxist theories --
Poststructuralism, postcolonialism and postdevelopmentalism --
Feminist theories of development --
Critical modernism, radical democracy, development.
Responsibility: Richard Peet with Elaine Hartwick.

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