ECONOMİC DEVELOPMENT: UTOPIAN İDEAL OR HISTORICAL PROCESS?

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1984

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NIXSON, Frederick

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Tlıat there is a crisis iıı development economics at the present time cannot be in doubt. The recent spate of articles on the evolution and current state of development economics as a separate sub-discipline reflects the atmosphere of questioning and self-doubt amongst main- streanı development economists, the continued resurgence and growing confidence and influence of the neo-classical revival, and the increa- singly incisive and penetrating critiques of radical political economists. Underlying this general pessimism is the notion that development economics has in some sense "failed" because of its apparent inability to change the vvorld, presumably in the direction of some idealised conception of "economic development". The argument of this paper is that a part of the current pessimism and doubt in the profession is related to its own coııcept of economic development, and its own inf- lated expectations of what economists as policy-makers or advisers can be expected to achieve in LDCs.

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