Interdependent Development Contributor(s): Brookfield, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415845203 ISBN-13: 9780415845205 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
Dewey: 338.9 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development |
Physical Information: (0.79 lbs) 246 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Rather than being a book about 'development' per se, this work, first published in 1975, is instead a book about ideas about development, designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field. In a selective review of theory, which gives particular emphasis to the spatial dimension in Western, Marxist and neo-Marxist thought, Harold Brookfield traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem of development from the days before the 'underdeveloped countries' were considered to be a major problem, through the years dominated by 'economic growth', to the more searching approaches of the contemporary era. The central argument of the book is that development is a 'totality', which cannot properly be understood by separation into parts. The 'developed' and 'underdeveloped' countries constitute one interdependent system, and change in one cannot be understood without consideration of the other. |