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Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution
Polly Hill
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Description for Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution
Hardback. This book examines the gulf that separates development economics from economic anthorpology. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: GTF. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 36. 211pp. Keywords: "Social & Cultural, Sociology"
Polly Hill's provocative book examines the disastrous gulf that separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first, polemical part of her book, how unreliable and western-biased assumptions most development economists base their theoretical work. She shows in particular that misleading official statistics are handled uncritically, that the significance of innate rural inequality is consistently ignored and the revered concepts such as the 'population explosion' are in anthropological terms largely meaningless. The longer, ... Read more
Polly Hill's provocative book examines the disastrous gulf that separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first, polemical part of her book, how unreliable and western-biased assumptions most development economists base their theoretical work. She shows in particular that misleading official statistics are handled uncritically, that the significance of innate rural inequality is consistently ignored and the revered concepts such as the 'population explosion' are in anthropological terms largely meaningless. The longer, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
211
Condition
Used, Very Good
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
very good
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521321044
SKU
KHS0068881
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