Economic Development
Economies as Social Systems: The Need to Go Beyond Simple Economics
Economics and economic systems, especially in the developing world must be viewed in a broader perspective than that postulated by traditional economic They must be analyzed within the context of the…
The Important Role of Values in Development
Economics is a social science. It is concerned with human beings and the social systems by which they organize their activities to satisfy basic material needs (e.g., food, shelter, clothing) and non…
Why Study Development Economics? Some Critical Questions
An introductory course in development economics should help students gain a better understanding of a number of critical questions about the economies of developing nations. The following is a sample…
The Nature of Development Economics
Traditional economics is concerned primarily with the efficient, least-cest allocation of scarce productive resources and with the optimal growth of these resources over time so as to produce an ever…
Economics and Development Studies
The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader disciplines of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that Adam …
How the Other Three-Quarters Live
As people throughout the world awake each morning to face a new day, they do so under very different circumstances. Some live in comfortable homes with many rooms. They have more than encugh to eat, …
Economic, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective
While humanity shares one planet, it is a planet on which there are two worlds, the world of the rich and the world of the poor. —Raanan Weitz, 1986 More than three-fourths of the world's peopl…