1st Edition
New Trends in Development Theory Essays in Development and Social Theory
1. Some Notes on the Significance of the Career of Development Studies 2. The Specificity of Social-theoretic Engagement: Some Lessons for ‘Neo-Marxian’ Studies of Development 3. Becoming Industrialised, Being Industrial: A Brief Analysis of a Particular Planning Mode of Engagement 4. The Impact of the ‘Received Model’ of Natural Science Upon Social Theorising 5. Comparative Ranking: Some Approaches to the Task of Rationally Adjudicating Between Competing Ideologies 6. The Ethico-Political Notion of Development: a Memorandum on Commitments 7. The Common Sense of Development Studies: Elements of Reconsideration
Biography
Peter Preston
