Product Description

This work comments on three decades of development theory, discusses the determinants of the course of its evolution and decline, and exemplifies it from the viewpoint of a leading participant in the debate. The author suggests that the African experience has some lessons to teach about the real meaning of uncontrolled capitalist development on a global scale.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #484591 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
...a welcome and concise summing up...both a retrospective view of development theory and a prospective view of African development' - Lloyd M. Sachikonye in The Zimbabwean Review '...Colin Leys has provided an eminently readable, well argued and concise survey of western development theory, which provides much of interest for the initiated and novice alike...It would make an excellent student text...' - David Simon in The Times Higher Education Supplement '...there is a great deal to be learned from this book by readers of any theoretical persuasion. Any intelligent and open-minded reader is likely to find his critique of rational choice theory, for instance, devastatingly incisive even if remaining sceptical of his claim that Marxism is especiallywell suited to remedy its deficiencies.' - Richard Jeffries in The Journal of Development Studies 'He makes immediate sense to anybody voting marginally to the left of Genghis Khan, Mrs Thatcher or Newt Gingrich.' - John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge