Let me remind (and recommend as well) the important personality of Paul N.
Rosenstein Rodan (1902-1985), an Austrian economist who gained a
Rockefeller fellowship for Italy in the thirties, and was in touch with
Einaudi. After some studies in the pure theory of consumption  (published
in Italian, in the "Riforma sociale" and in "Nuova collana degli
economisti"), he passed to the theory of economic development publishing
an important study on "Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and
South-Eastern Europe", EJ, Sept-Oct. 1943. In the fifties, he spent some
time again in Italy at the SVIMEZ (Associazione per lo sviluppo economico
del Mezzogiorno, Association for the economic develoment of Southern
Italy) in Rome. Please note that also such scholars as Robert Eckaus,
Albert Hirschman (who graduated in Italy about 1935), Hollis Chenery,
Friedrich and Vera Lutz contributed works for  SVIMEZ. The story of the
connections between Italian and foreign prominent scholars in this study
center is still to be written.
Probably a biographical sketch of Rosenstein Rodan was written after his
death, but I do not know.
Riccardo Faucci


> Sergio,
>
> Based on my own search of a couple of years back, and my current PhD
> student's work on the question - there is surprisingly little.  The
> official histories from the World Bank enable you to trace their changing
> views about development (and there is a recent book by Michele Alacevich
> on the Bank).  There are some 'participant history' chapters in textbooks
> and monographs on development; there are some useful
> biographical/autobiographical sources on people like Arthur Lewis; and of
> course some impressive pieces by Albert Hirschman on Latin America (which
> I guess you probably know).  (Ana Maria Bianchi at Sao Paulo also has some
> papers on Hirschman, and Jeremy Adelman is doing a biography of him.)  I
> can also recommend this paper by Daniel Speich here (which may by now be
> published):
> http://www2.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/pdf/FACTSPDF/3308Speich.pdf
>
> Mary Morgan (LSE, currently Davis Fellow, Princeton)
> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/Research/facts/Events.htm>
>
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>
> 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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