... and the World Bank Disagreed on the Project Appraisal and Development Approaches.” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6260 . Chenery Hollis B. 1959 . Review of The Design of Development, by Jan Tinbergen . American Economic Review 59 : 1063 – 65 . ———. 1969 . “The Process...

...Moshe Syrquin The post–World War II period saw the reemergence of growth and development as key fields of inquiry. Initially, both growth and development studies emphasized grand theories with little or no empirical basis. This article focuses on the contribution of two central players...

... discussion, for instance, about the reliability and usefulness of aggregate metrics such as GNP, what the ultimate goals of development should be, and which indi- cators best captured developmental change and progress. For his part, Seers cultivated networks of like-minded scholars engaged in similar...

..., and Cameron Hazlehurst. 1988 . Australian Statisticians and the Development of Official Statistics. In Year Book Australia . Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Fry, E. C. 1965 . T. A. Coghlan as an Historian. Paper delivered to Section E, History, ANZAAS Conference, Hobart. Eric Fry Papers...

... is well worth reading for three reasons: (i) the development of his ratio, (ii) the discussion of economic integration, and (iii) the annotated bibliography. Everyone who does not read it will have missed an important statement on economic integration written by one of the more influential...

... light on the development of early socialist thought. Correspondence may be addressed to Luc Bovens, UNC at Chapel Hill, Department of Philosophy, Caldwell Hall, CB# 3125, 240 East Cameron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125; email: [email protected] Adrien Lutz, Univ Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne, GATE UMR 5824...

...Amitava Krishna Dutt The main economic ideas of Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are discussed in terms of their analysis of poverty and its causes, their economic methodology, their normative ideas about development, and their prescriptions for fostering...

...Michele Alacevich; Mauro Boianovsky This is the editorial introduction to the HOPE conference volume on the history of development economics. The disciplinary field of development economics has been surrounded by controversies since its inception in the postwar period. Although growth economics...

... and economic development. Herbert Frankel was appointed in 1946 to a new Oxford chair in Colonial Economic Affairs, and during the 1940s and early 1950s Peter Bauer conducted research on the Malayan rubber industry and West African trade for the Colonial Office, being appointed in 1960 to a chair...

...Michele Alacevich This article describes the birth and early trajectory of development economics during the 1950s. It shows the European origins of many core concepts of development economics and how they acquired global currency. The article also discusses the links between the birth of the new...

...Stephen Meardon Since its founding, especially before the late nineteenth-century closing of its frontier, the United States has been a laboratory for the creation and application of theories of economic development. A salient tradition in American economic thought has held, first, that Americans...

...Mauro Boianovsky This article examines how Arthur Lewis adopted and adapted classical concepts in his approach to development. The Lewis 1954 model is set in the context of other growth and development models put forward at the time by Roy Harrod, Evsey Domar, Trevor Swan, Nicholas Kaldor, Robert...

... . 2012 . The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence . New York : Oxford University Press . Bielschowsky Ricardo . 2009 . “ Sixty Years of ECLAC: Structuralism and Neo-structuralism .” CEPAL Review 97 ( April ): 171 – 92 . Boianovsky Mauro . 2012 . “ Celso...

...Eric Helleiner Although the concept of international development is often said to have been pioneered in the West, Sun Yat-sen’s ideas on the topic predated those of most Western thinkers and included one of the first proposals ever advanced for an international institution with a core development...

...Frances Stewart The article reviews changes toward development in thought and policy over seven decades, drawing on Karl Polanyi’s analysis to explain the major changes that occurred. It argues that changes in thought and policies are the outcome of a Polanyiesque pendulum from state to market...

...Salim Rashid Neoclassical economic development is the view that there exists a core set of theoretical propositions that define all economic problems—whether for developed or developing countries—and even guide us toward the solutions. Details from local circumstances may need to be filled...

...John Toye This article charts the rise and fall of the claim that development economics is a separate, independent branch of economics from neoclassical economics, from 1960 to 1980. It also traces the changes in development policy that followed the collapse of that doctrinal claim, while arguing...

... that mental models—categories, concepts, narratives, and worldviews—profoundly influence our decision making by unconsciously shaping what we perceive and the “toolbox” of strategies we draw on to respond. Many researchers have connected this idea to economic development, yet they rarely identify their work...

...Mary S. Morgan; Maria Bach Recipes for creating development have changed radically since the international community first thought to intervene in such historical processes soon after World War II. During this time, views about how to measure development have also changed dramatically, moving from...

...Marcel Boumans; Neil De Marchi Development economics in the 1950s and 1960s, as Jan Tinbergen and Irma Adelman saw it, was a “groping in the dark.” Besides the limited knowledge of dynamic mechanisms, the lack of data was a severe problem for any attempt at modeling, whether macroeconomic, input...