Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Seligson, Mitchell A., 1945-
2. Passé-Smith, John T.

Description

1. xi, 468 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. This edition of "Development and Underdevelopment" retains many of the selections that made the first edition so useful in the classroom, while adding new material that includes studies that enable readers to trace levels of national development back to the beginning of the 19th century.

Alternative title

1. Development & underdevelopment

Subject

1. Since 1945
2. Economic development
3. Income distribution
4. Capitalism
5. Economic history > 1945-
6. Social history > 1945-
7. Développement économique
8. Revenu > Répartition
9. Histoire économique > 1945-
10. Histoire sociale > 1945-
11. economic development
12. Capitalism
13. Economic development
14. Economic history
15. Income distribution
16. Social history
17. Economische groei
18. Inkomensverdeling
19. economic disparity
20. income distribution
21. economic conditions
22. underdevelopment
23. dependence
24. economic growth
25. productivity
26. wealth
27. poverty
28. cultural factor
29. industrialization
30. work attitude
31. entrepreneurship
32. foreign investment
33. multinational enterprise
34. agricultural market
35. state intervention
36. political aspect
37. environmental policy
38. statistical table
39. disparité économique
40. répartition du revenu
41. conditions économiques
42. développement économique
43. sous-développement
44. dépendance
45. croissance économique
46. productivité
47. richesse
48. pauvreté
49. facteur culturel
50. industrialisation
51. attitude à l'égard du travail
52. esprit d'entreprise
53. investissement étranger
54. entreprise multinationale
55. marché agricole
56. intervention de l'Etat
57. aspect politique
58. politique de l'environnement
59. tableau statistique
60. desigualdad económica
61. distribución del ingreso
62. condiciones económicas
63. desarrollo económico
64. subdesarrollo
65. dependencia
66. crecimiento económico
67. productividad
68. riqueza
69. pobreza
70. factor cultural
71. industrialización
72. actitud hacia el trabajo
73. capacidad empresarial
74. inversiones extranjeras
75. empresa multinacional
76. mercado agrícola
77. intervención estatal
78. aspecto político
79. política ambiental
80. cuadros estadísticos
81. Developing countries > Economic conditions
82. Developing countries
83. Africa
84. developing countries
85. East Asia
86. Latin America
87. Afrique
88. Amérique latine
89. pays en développement
90. Asie de l'Est
91. América Latina
92. países en desarrollo
93. Asia Oriental

Genre/Form

1. textbook.
2. bibliography.
3. manuel d'enseignement.
4. bibliographie.
5. libro de texto.
6. bibliografía.

Contents

1. The dual gaps : an updated overview of theory and research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- The five stages of growth / W.W. Rostow -- Income growth, income gaps and the ranking of nations / Angus Maddison -- The persistence of the gap between rich and poor countries : taking stock of world economic growth, 1960-1993 / John T. Passé-Smith -- Economic growth and income inequality / Simon Kuznets -- Cross-national evidence of the domestic gap / Montek S. Ahluwalia -- A new data set measuring income inequality / Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire -- Inequality and insurgency / Edward N. Muller and Mitchell A. Seligson -- Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind / Moses Abramovitz -- Productivity growth, convergence and welfare : what the long-run data show / William J. Baumol -- Productivity, growth, convergence and welfare : comment / J. Bradford de Long -- Could it be that the whole world is already rich? A comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc measures / John T. Passé-Smith -- Forget convergence : divergence past, present and future / Lant Pritchett -- The achievement motive in economic growth / David C. McClelland -- Reevaluating the effect of N-Ach on economic growth / Jeffrey Lewis -- The effect of cultural values on economic development : theory, hypotheses and some empirical tests / Jim Granato [and others] -- Becoming modern / Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith -- The Confucian ethic and economic growth / Herman Kahn -- The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis -- Undevelopment is a state of mind / Lawrence E. Harrison -- On the sociology of national development : theories and issues / Alejandro Portes -- The structure of dependence / Theotonio dos Santos -- Modernization and dependency : alternative perspectives in the study of Latin American underdevelopment / J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela -- The present state of the debate on world inequality / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Transnational penetration and economic growth / Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Growth effects of foreign and domestic investment / Glenn Firebaugh -- American penetration and Canadian development : a study of mature dependency / Heather-Jo Hammer and John W. Gartrell -- Governments and agricultural markets in Africa / Robert H. Bates -- Why people stay poor elsewhere / Erich Weede -- Urban bias and inequality / Michael Lipton -- Political regimes and economic growth / Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi -- Growth in East Asia : what we can and what we cannot infer / Michael Sarel -- Inequality as a constraint on growth in Latin America / Nancy Birdsall and Richard Sabot -- Growth and the environment : allies or foes? / Vinod Thomas and Tamara Belt -- Inequality in a global perspective : directions for further research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- Appendix. Basic indicators of the gaps between rich and poor in 133 countries.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.