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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784049803321

Autore

Mehmet Ozay

Titolo

Westernizing the Third World : the eurocentricity of economic development theories / / Ozay Mehmet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-62646-0

0-203-25558-5

1-280-32996-3

1-134-62647-9

0-203-05551-9

9786610329960

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

338.9/009172/4

Soggetti

Economic development

Mercantile system

Ethnocentrism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of boxes; Preface to the second edition; Westernizing the Third World; Classical (pre-1914) economic development theories; Postwar neo-classical theories, 1945  1973; Model-building and macro-planning; The new economic order: false start 1973; The latest state of the art: economic development theorizing since 1980; Conclusion and future agenda; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of this successful and popular text has been updated and revised to include recent issues in development economics.Significant new additions include:* Asian values and development* democracy, human rights and good governance* globalization and development* boxed summaries of key arguments and glossary.Westernizing the Third World identifies the mainstream economic theories which have been employed in developing countries. The author examines these and explains why Eurocentric concepts are not suitable for the developing world.