... in the quantifying of economic development and structural transformation: Simon Kuznets and Hollis Chenery. Kuznets brought the national income framework to bear on the process of growth and structural transformation in, primarily, more-developed countries, with data stretching back to the early phases...

...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...

... . 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...

...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...

...P. J. Cain History of Political Economy I1:3 C 1979 by Duke University Press International trade and economic development in the work of J. A. Hobson before 1914 P. J. Cain, University of Birmingham...

..., since they mar a book that will otherwise be quite useful to the serious student of Edgeworth. The Johns Hopkins University PETERNEWMAN Economic development: the history of an idea. By H. W. Arndt. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Pp...

... by the non-economists. Our dilemma may be that a small interdisciplinary step is impossible; a large one is unmanageable. Royal1 Brandis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aspirations and Realities: A Documentary History of Economic Development Policy in Ireland...

...J. E. King By Vincent Barnett. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998; Basingstoke:Macmillan, 1998. xiv; 251 pp. $79.95/£50. 2000 HOPE 32.2-08.BookReviews 5/10/00 12:42 PM Page 406 406 Book Reviews Kondratiev and the Dynamics of Economic...

...M. G. Marshall Luxury, Economic Development, and Work Motivation: David Hume, Adam Smith, and J. R. McCulloch M. G. Marshall In a recent article AnthonyBrewer (1998) discussed David Hume’s anal- ysis of luxury consumption. He pointed out, in particular, that Hume approved of luxury(since...

...Paul B. Trescott H. D. Fong and the Study of Chinese Economic Development Paul B. Trescott H. D. Fong (Fang Hsien-ding, Fan Xianting, 1902–1985) was one of the most prolific writers dealing with China’s economy during the 1930s and 1940s. During most of this period he was a member...

...Neil T. Skaggs H. D. Macleod and the Origins of the Theory of Finance in Economic Development Neil T. Skaggs The last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of research on what had previously been a largely ignored topic: how financial development affects economic development.1...

... . Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press. 604 Book Reviews The Contribution of Joseph Schumpeter to Economics: Economic Development and InstitutionalChange. Edited by Richard Arena and Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer. London: Routledge, 2002. xviii; 264 pp. $100.00. This volume is a collection of essays by a dozen...

...Mauro Boianovsky The article shows how Celso Furtado's interpretation of development and underdevelopment as interdependent phenomena was part of the emergence of development economics as a research field in the 1950s. The main features of underdeveloped economic structures, according to Furtado...

... as a poet. Such flights of abstract literary interpretation by a critic puts one in mind of the selling of ultra-fine garments to the emperor. Washington and Lee University S. TODDLOWRY Looking into the Seeds of Time: Social Mechanics in Economic Development. By Y.S...

... as the failures of third-world economic development—as well as some of the pathologies of the USSR’s own politics. The Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie: How the Soviet Union Lost Faith in State-Led Economic Development Chris Miller When Ahmed Sékou Touré, the president of newly independent Guinea, embraced Marxism...

...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...

..., incompetent, and immaterial-than purism mis- applied or Bunthorne’s “good taste misplaced?” Duke University MARTINBRONFENBRENNER The History of Economic Thought and Analysis: A Selective Interna- tional Bibliography. Volume. I. Development of Economic Thought...

...Peter Boettke; Steven Horwitz Duke University Press 2005 Ahrens, J. 2002 . Governance and Economic Development: A Comparative Institutional Approach . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Ayittey, George. 1994 . The Failure of Development Planning in Africa. In The Collapse of Development...

...David C. Engerman In the 1940s and 1950s, as Soviet studies became a vibrant academic enterprise with significant links to the policy world, economic Sovietology occupied a special place. Those same years saw, also, the first major wave of decolonization and with it the rise of development...

...Daniel Horowitz Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Historians and economists: perspectives on the development of American economic thought Daniel Horowitz In the current revival of interest in the history of economic thought, one problem is generally...