Understanding Development Economics (Economics as Social Theory) - Hardcover

Fforde, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415869838 ISBN 13: 9780415869836

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, measurable discipline prone to wide usage of mathematical modelling, and the more discursive, practice based approach favoured by Development Studies.

The aim of this book is to show how the two disciplines have interacted, as well as how they differ. This is crucial in forming an understanding of development work, and to thinking about why policy recommendations can often lead to severe and continuing problems in developing countries.

This book introduces Development Economics to those coming from two different but linked perspectives; economists and students of development who are not economists. In both explaining and critiquing Development Economics, the book is able to suggest the implications of these findings for Development Studies, and more broadly, for development policy and its outcomes.

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About the Author

Adam Fforde is a part-time Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Australia, and he holds an honorary position at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415869838
• ISBN 13: 9780415869836
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384