Vijay Kumar

Globalisation Development Paradigms and Beyond Development

      Anmol. New. Contents: Vol. I: Preface. 1. One world. 2. Globalisation after modernisations. 3. Globalisation: a challenge to the social sciences. 4. Globalisation: a world without alternatives. 5. Globalisation, sustainable development and environment. 6. Developments. 7. Alternatives in development: a conceptual framework. 8. Beyond development. 9. Development viewed internationally. 10. Alternative strategies to development. 11. Services and development. 12. What development? A third world viewpoint. 13. Development paradigms. 14. Choice of development options. 15. Development economic order. 16. The dilemmas of development. 17. Environment, population and development problems. 18. The hinges of global change. 19. Planned development in India. 20. Environment. 21. Equality. 22. Needs. 23. Progress. 24. Standard of living. 25. Exploring a third way. |~|Vol: II: 26. Measurement of income mobility. 27. The capital market in India. 28. Economic growth and social justice. 29. Development control and the town and country planning system. 30. Fostering a new value system in development. 31. Interlinkage in Agrarian markets. 32. Development economics and the Indian experience. 33. World monetary system. 34. Quality of human life: how is India doing? 35. Brain drain or brain overflow. 36. Population and economic development: myths and realities. 37. Development and deprivation. 38. Poverty. 39. Analysis and vision in economic thought. 40. Crisis and transformation of dependency in the world system. 41. Imperialism and dependency. 42. Imperialism and progress. 43. Science, technology and society: India in today's world. 44. The search for styles of development. 45. Regional imbalances in economic development. 46. Caste system and its future. 47. Holistic approach to development-can we bridge the missing links? 48. Major issues in development control. 49. The future. Bibliography. Index.|~|"The developing and underdeveloped countries are a very mixed collection of countries. They differ widely in area, population density, and natural resources. They are also at different stages in the development of market and financial institutions and of an effective administrative framework. These differences are sufficient to warn against wide-sweeping generalizations about the causes of underdevelopment and all-embracing theoretical models of economic development. But when development economics first came into prominence in the 1950s, there were powerful intellectual and political forces propelling the subject toward such general theoretical models of development and underdevelopment. First, many writers who popularized the subject were frankly motivated by a desire to persuade the developed countries to give more economic aid to the underdeveloped countries, on grounds ranging from humanitarian considerations to considerations of cold-war strategy. Second, there was the reaction of the newly independent underdeveloped countries against their past "colonial economic pattern," which they identified with free trade and primary production for the export market. These countries were eager to accept general theories of economic development that provided a rationalization for their deep-seated desire for rapid industrialization. Third, there was a parallel reaction, at the academic level, against older economic theory, with its emphasis on the efficient allocation of scarce resources and a striving after new and "dynamic" approaches to economic development.|~|"All of these forces combined to produce a crop of theoretical approaches that soon developed into a fairly fixed orthodoxy with its characteristic emphasis on "crash" programmes of investment in both material and human capital, on domestic industrialization, and on government economic planning as the standard ingredients of development policy. These new theories have continued to have a considerable influence on the conventional wisdom in development economics, although in retrospect most of them have turned out to be partial theories. A broad survey of these theories, under three main heads, is given below. It is particularly, relevant to the debate over whether the underdeveloped countries should seek economic development through domestic industrialization or through international trade." (jacket) . ISBN: 81-261-1488-6.