Carlos Ramirez-Faria

The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations

A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1991 this text provides an incisive analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. Central to the author's investigation is the concept of underdevelopment, and a focus on successive Western 'systems of conceptualisation' of the relationship between the west and the rest of the world. The first part of the book concerns the Marx/Engels theory of the Asiatic mode of production, and the anti-Imperialist reaction against Eurocentrisim initiated by the theoretical synthesis of J. A. Hobson. This is followed by an examination of the post-World War II era, particularly the evolution of development studies and the differing versions of dependency theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415853798
• ISBN-10: 0415853796
• Artikelnr.: 37085358

Autorenporträt

Carlos Ramirez-Faria

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cultural Relativism, Eurocentrism and Marx's Asiatic Mode of Production
2. The Anti-Imperialist Reaction and the Marxist Pre-emption of Economic
Imperialism Theory 3. Policies and Politics in the Struggle for the Third
World 4. The Marxist Response to Western Developmentalism 5. The Overthrow
of the Orthodoxies and the Progress of the West