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Development Economics in Perspective

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Development theorizing in economics is old but so-called ‘development economics’ is not. Economists from the middle of the eighteenth century onwards have been writing books on the subject even when the discipline of economics had not emerged as a distinct body of thought or as a self-contained mode of reasoning.

This paper is the first of two lectures which Professor Chakravarty delivered on 2 and 3 May 1989 as the 1988–9 Alfred Marshall Lectures in Economics at the University of Cambridge. The second, under the title ‘Development Planning: A Reappraisal’ was published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, 15 March 1991, pp. 5–20.

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  1. Sukhamoy Chakravarty
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  1. Università di Verona, Italy

    Mauro Baranzini (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    G. C. Harcourt (Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Fellow of Jesus College, Professor Emeritus) (Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Fellow of Jesus College, Professor Emeritus)

  3. University of Adelaide, Australia

    G. C. Harcourt (Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Fellow of Jesus College, Professor Emeritus) (Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Fellow of Jesus College, Professor Emeritus)

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Chakravarty, S. (1993). Development Economics in Perspective. In: Baranzini, M., Harcourt, G.C. (eds) The Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22728-0_11

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