From Right to Left in Development Theory / / Kevin P. Clements.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Archive eBook-Package 1970-1999
• VerfasserIn: Clements, Kevin P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (42 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; I. NEO-CLASSICAL GROWTI-I THEORY --; II. THE STRUCTURALIST MODEL --; Ill. POLITICAL OUTCOMES --; IV. MARXIST AND NEO-MARXIST UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND ·DEPENDENCE THEORY --; V. POLITICAL OUTCOMES --; REFERENCES
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814376754; 9783110606690
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814376754
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kevin P. Clements.

The paper explores the central assumptions of the Neo-Classical, Structuralist, and Marxist theories of development in order to determine how these theories create real political parameters. The conclusion is that radical diagnoses of development/underdevelopment dominate academic thinking but conservative theories dominate policy formation. Given a choice between a flexible exchange rate policy and a national liberation struggle, policy makers in the Third World will opt for flexible exchange rates while justifying their actions in terms of more radical rhetoric.