9788170338499 - Theories of Development (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Economic theories of growth and development. 3. Sociological theories of modernization. 4. Marxist and neo Marxist theories. 5. Poststructuralism postcolonialism and postdevelopmentalism. 6. Feminist theories of development. 7. Critical modernism radical democracy development. References. Index. 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 marker driven economic growth the authors argue instead that an alternative democratic form of development remains a viable possibility. 234 pp.