1st Edition

Development Economics Aptly or Wrongly Named?

Edited By Natalia Bracarense, Louis-Philippe Rochon Copyright 2022
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Since the inception of development economics in the post-World War II period, most of its proponents have prescribed the adoption of western institutions as the path for prosperity – the unequivocal solution for poverty, illiteracy, hunger, inequality, and violence in the world. Seventy years of attempts, or at least the pretense thereof, to reproduce the western model in completely different... Read more

The Aptly or Wrongly Named Development Economics: An Introduction to New Perspectives and Models

Natalia Bracarense

1. Underdevelopment and Dependence: The Fundamental Connections

Celso Furtado

2. The Myth of Economic Development and the Future of the Third World

Celso Furtado

3. Celso Furtado and the Myth of Economic Development: Rethinking Development from Exile

Pedro Loureiro, Fernando Rugitsky and Alfredo Saad-Filho

4. Growth, Distribution, and External Constraints: A Post-Kaleckian Model Applied to Brazil

Douglas Alencar, Frederico G. Jayme and Gustavo Britto

5. The Limitations of International Relations Regarding MNCs and the Digital Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Marcos Vinícius Isaias Mendes

6. Keynes on State and Economic Development

Fábio Henrique Bittes Terra, Fernando Ferrari Filho and Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca

7. Capital Flows to Latin America (2003–17): A Critical Survey from Prebisch’s Business Cycle Theory

Roberto Lampa

8. Institutions and Development From a Historical Perspective: the Case of the Brazilian Development Bank

Alex Wilhans Antonio Palludeto and Roberto Alexandre Zanchetta Borghi

9. Institutional Change in Nepal: Liberalization, Maoist Movement, Rise of Political Consciousness and Constitutional Change

Kalpana Khanal and Natalia Bracarense

Biography

Natalia Bracarense is Associate Professor of Economics at North Central College, Naperville, USA, and an ATER at SciencesPo Toulouse, France. Specialised in International Political Economy and History of Economic Thought, Dr. Bracarense analyses the historical unfolding of development policies implemented in several countries to inform economic theory towards a framework that views economic transformation as a non-linear and non-teleological process.

Louis-Philippe Rochon is Full Professor of Economics at Laurentian University, Canada. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Political Economy and the founding Editor (now Emeritus) of the Review of Keynesian Economics. He has published over 150 book and journal articles and written or edited over 30 books.