DevelopmentISBN: 978-0-7456-3067-0
Hardcover
196 pages
January 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Political Studies Review
"Payne and Phillips make a robust case for (re)integrating analysis of development into the intellectual project of political economy, anchored in classical theory. In a world with increasingly evident limits, this comprehensive intervention is timely and critical, offering historical-theoretical support for a holistic approach to development."
Philip McMichael, Cornell University
"'Development' is the name we give to the third most important
set of issues facing mankind, after nuclear proliferation and
climate change. Anthony Payne and Nicola Phillips explain the
evolution of the intellectual debate about the subject, starting
with the eighteenth century classical political economists and
continuing up to the present. Comprehensive and elegantly written,
their study is about the best available between two covers."
Robert Wade, London School of Economics
"This is a timely, valuable and important book which clarifies
significantly the often vaguely used concept of 'development' by
placing it firmly in the contemporary global context and anchoring
it authoritatively in a multi-disciplinary understanding of the
interactions of political and economic processes."
Adrian Leftwich, University of York
"This book makes a refreshing contribution to the understanding
of the development debates and, more importantly, it rehabilitates
the concept by rooting it in the broader intellectual enterprise of
political economy. A most welcome resource. A job well done!"
Diana Tussie , FLACSO, Argentina