Thank you Danilo, very useful
Oscar

"Sergio Silva-Castaneda" <[log in to unmask]> ha escrito:

> This is very helpful, thanks a lot. I read portuguese, so I´ll check the
> dissertation.
>
> Sergio
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Danilo F. Ramalho da Silva <
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>
>> Hi Sergio,
>> I wrote my M.A.'s dissertation on the the origins of the idea of economic
>> development, in 2005.
>> I used Arndt't book as a guide through the history of this idea; it was the
>> newest source I had at that time.
>> I analyzed the work of Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Hirschman and Raul
>> Prebisch.
>> The dissertation is in Portuguese, but maybe you can find something
>> interesting in the references.
>> There is a very short version of the dissertation in English.
>>
>> You can find my dissertataion, in Portuguese, at:
>>
>> http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12140/tde-13022006-161222/pt-br.php
>>
>> The very short version of the dissertation, in English, presented at the
>> University of São Paulo, you can find at:
>> http://www.econ.fea.usp.br/seminarios/artigos2/raul.pdf
>> **Cheers!
>>
>> Danilo Freitas Ramalho da Silva
>> Ph.D Candidate in Economics
>> University of São Paulo, Brazil.
>>
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>> Em 04/02/2011 19:41, *Sergio Silva-Castaneda <  
>> [log in to unmask] >*escreveu:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I'm wondering if any of you can point me to something recent about the
>> origin of the idea of economic development. I have read H.W. Arndt´s *The
>> History of an Idea (1987) *and a very interesting collection of papers
>> edited by Frederick Cooper and Randal Packard called *International
>> Development and the Social Sciences (1997) *But I´d like to know if there
>> is anything more recent that any of you can recommend. Thanks in advance for
>> any help.
>>  Sergio
>>
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>> Lecturer on History and Social Studies
>> Harvard University
>>
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>>
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> Sergio Silva Castaneda
> Lecturer on History and Social Studies
> Harvard University
>
> CGIS-South Building
> 1730 Cambridge Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> Room S425
> 617.496.4780
>