I would recommend "Encountering Development" from Arturo Escobar. You
might be already familiar with his work.
Best,
Bilge Erten
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Riccardo Faucci <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Societies for the History of Economics on behalf of Sergio
>> Silva-Castaneda
>> Sent: Fri 04/02/2011 16:41
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [SHOE] The Idea of Development
>>
>>
>> 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愀 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悲 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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