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The Global Development Crisis Paperback – Illustrated, 17 Jan. 2014
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The Global Development Crisis challenges this way of thinking. Through an interrogation of some of the most important political economists of the last two centuries Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Schumpeter, Alexander Gerschenkron, Karl Polanyi and Amarta Sen, Selwyn argues that class relations are the central cause of poverty and inequality, within and between countries. In contrast to much development thinking, which portrays ‘the poor’ as reliant upon benign assistance, this book advocates the concept of labour-centred development. Here ‘the poor’ are the global labouring classes, and their own collective actions and struggles constitute the basis of an alternative form of non-elitist, bottom-up human development.
- ISBN-100745660150
- ISBN-13978-0745660158
- Edition1st
- PublisherPolity
- Publication date17 Jan. 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.24 x 1.98 x 22.99 cm
- Print length224 pages
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Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
"Selwyn's The Global Development Crisis advances critical debate about the goals of social change and how they might be achieved. Selwyn's critical engagement with influential ideas makes this a fecund text for students, faculty and activists. By bringing class relations back to the centre of development discourse, and outlining how a labour-centred development might emerge, Selwyn is doing great service to the goals of equality and human development."
Ben Crow, University of California, Santa Cruz
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- Publisher : Polity; 1st edition (17 Jan. 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0745660150
- ISBN-13 : 978-0745660158
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.98 x 22.99 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,118,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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