"He has this wonderful and rare capacity to delineate the most complex of arguments in the most limpid prose. He never takes refuge in jargon. He demolishes pretentiousness. He is disarmingly honest. He hits you between the eyes. He is not afraid to be a lone voice as, increasingly, nowadays he is, the still small voice of humane sanity in an increasingly barbarous and market-oriented world. He makes immediate sense to anybody voting marginally to the left of Genghis Khan, Mrs. Thatcher or Newt Gingrich." ―John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
 This book is a "stock-taking" of development theory at the end of the 20th century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The postcolonial "third world" for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the postwar regime of regulated international trade and capital movements has drastically curtailed the scope for state economic intervention. A much broader based, more historical and more explicitly political theoretical effort is now called for.

The Rise and Fall of Development Theory

Business & Money

Leys, Colin

Economics

Indiana University Press

The Rise & Fall of Development Theory

Indiana Univ. Pr

Underdevelopment in Kenya: The political economy of neo-colonialism, 1964-1971

Heinemann

Politics in Britain: An introduction

Heinemann Educational

Underdevelopment in Kenya: Political Economy of Neocolonialism, 1964-71

Heinemann Educational Publishers

Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neo-Colonialism, 1964-1971

Random House Value Pub

Leys, Colin, Underdevelopment In Kenya: The Political Economy Of Neo-Coloniali

University of California Press

Politics in Britain: An Introduction

University of Toronto Press

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