Theories of development: contentions, arguments, alternatives

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Choice Reviews Online · 2009 · 369 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

1. Introduction: Growth versus Development I. Conventional Theories of Development 2. Classical and Neoclassical Economics 3. From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism 4. Development as Modernization II. Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development 5. Marxism, Socialism, and Development 6. Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism 7. Feminist Theories of Development III. Critical Modernism 8. Critical Modernism and Democratic Development