Choice Reviews Online · 2004 · 402 citations · 4 references
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Why did India, despite a democratic framework and a state commitment to economic growth, fail to reach the levels of economic development that South Korea reached in the 1950s and 1960s? Vivek Chibber’s Locked in Place revives the comparative historical study of economic development and argues for the central role of capitalists in sending India’s developmental state awry. In this issue Jeffery Paige, Elisabeth Clemens, and Leo Panitch examine Chibber’s claims and Chibber responds.
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The Making of the English Working Class.
Neil J. Smelser, E. P. Thompson · History and Theory · 1966 · 4.3K citations