One of the critical indicators to the idea of development (not as growth theory) would seem to be when the notion of 'underdevelopment' comes into the frame.  I would guess that this is the 1950s.  
 
Mary S. Morgan
LSE and University of Amsterdam, Currently: Davis Fellow, Princeton University
 
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Tony Brewer's comment about the "split" (for lack of a better term) in the conception of "development" is spot on. The old view is nicely illustrated in Lord Robbins' book, The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought (1968), based on his Chichele Lectures delivered at All Souls in 1966. The focus is very much what we today would call growth theory, and Robbins' definition of "development" is self-consciously along these lines (see pp. 3-5).

Steve Medema
University of Colorado Denver







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