The many faces of socioeconomic change / / John Toye.

"Development is not a purely economic phenomenon; it also has a strong sociological element. The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change explores how economic socio-cultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam Smith. Surveying narratives of how developmen...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 190 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to ideas of development
  • Evolutionary social progress, 1762-1848
  • Development within the limits of order, 1820-1870
  • Development by imitation, 1839-1947
  • Liberal development, 1925-1946
  • Colonial development by intersector labour transfer, 1950-1969
  • Development as take-off, 1950-1975
  • Development as economic growth, 1956-
  • Development as doctrines doubted, 1951-1977
  • Development with a human face, 1980-
  • Double-edged development, 1767-
  • The last grand narrative of development, 1938-.