Macrofoundations of Political Economy and Development: Survival Conditions Analysis

337 Pages·2007·1.038 MB·English

by  David Goalstone (auth.)

MACROFOUNDATIONS
OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT
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Macrofoundations of Political Economy
and Development
Survival Conditions Analysis
David Goalstone
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Goalstone,David,1951–
Macrofoundations of political economy and development :survival
conditions analysis / by David Goalstone.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:Modern macrofoundation—Classical macrofoundation—
Aspects of development.
1.Subsistence economy.2.Economic development.3.Developing
countries—Economic conditions. I.Title.II.Title:Survival conditions
analysis.
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of his preservation, and (3) that of the perpetuation of his species.
—Marquis de Mirabeau and Francois Quesnay, Rural Philosophy
nature
human beings
1 original needs 3
2
whole in terms of its roots, subsistence
the means of the subsistence, that all the branches of the political order depend.
—Marquis de Mirabeau and Francois Quesnay, Rural Philosophy
precarious...
—Sir James Steuart,Principles of Political Economy
proposes
—Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE—MODERN MACROFOUNDATION
PART TWO—CLASSICAL MACROFOUNDATION
PART THREE—ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT
32 Alternative Development
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of People
Index of Places
PREFACE
conditions in the first world. This is seen most starkly in the difference be
the poorworlds we need survival-conditions analysis.
1990 ESTABLISHED SUB-SAHARAN MIDDLEEAST I
MARKETECONOMIES AFRICA CRESCENT
Source:World Development Report 1993(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 200–201.
problem—can be usefully analyzed through macrofoundations.
Ihope this book can provide useful theoretical tools for that sort of project.
analysis, demography is treated as the queen of social sciences.