Understanding Development Economics: Its Challenge to Development Studies (Economics as Social Theory) - Tapa blanda

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Fforde, Adam

 
9780415869829: Understanding Development Economics: Its Challenge to Development Studies (Economics as Social Theory)
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ISBN 10: 041586982X ISBN 13: 9780415869829
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, measurable discipline prone to wide usage of mathematical modelling, and the more discursive, practice based approach favoured by Development Studies.

The aim of this book is to show how the two disciplines have interacted, as well as how they differ. This is crucial in forming an understanding of development work, and to thinking about why policy recommendations can often lead to severe and continuing problems in developing countries.

This book introduces Development Economics to those coming from two different but linked perspectives; economists and students of development who are not economists. In both explaining and critiquing Development Economics, the book is able to suggest the implications of these findings for Development Studies, and more broadly, for development policy and its outcomes.

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Acerca del autor

Adam Fforde is a part-time Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, and he holds an honorary position at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
041586982X
ISBN 13 
9780415869829
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
384
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9780415869836: Understanding Development Economics: Its Challenge to Development Studies (Economics as Social Theory)

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ISBN 10:  0415869838 ISBN 13:  9780415869836
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