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The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations
Carlos Ramirez Faria
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Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of abbreviations
List of tables
Introduction
1 Cultural relativism, Eurocentrism and Marx’s Asiatic mode of production
Perception of differences and Eurocentrism
The Asiatic mode of production
Marxist theoretical blind alleys
The evolution of environmental theory
2 The anti-imperialist reaction and the Marxist pre-emption of economic-imperialism theory
Colonialism and social imperialism
J. A. Hobson, the patterns of colonialism and the debate over economic imperialism
Marxist theories of imperialism
The Comintern phase of Marxist economic-imperialism theory
The humane face of Eurocentrism and the progress of the West
3 Policies and politics in the struggle for the Third World
Economic development and world history
The ‘birth’ of underdevelopment
Pre-1945 theoretical work on economic development
The historical context for the growth of development studies
The history of development studies
The ‘mainstream’ phase
Modernization theory, or? a controversial expansion of development studies
The W. W. Rostow synthesis and its critics
The balance to
Development economics in the 1960s
4 The Marxist response to Western developmentalism
Introduction
The theoretical shortcomings of the Marxist view of the Third World
Baran’s long-view of underdevelopment
The historical context of radicalism
A controversial revision of dependency ideas
A. G. Frank
The definition of dependency
Third World contributions to economic-imperialism theory
Western syntheses on economic-imperialism theory
I. Wallerstein’s dependency summation
5 The overthrow of the orthodoxies and the progress of the West
The onset of disillusion in development studies
Alternative methods and approaches
The dependency debates
The general critique of dependency
The laissez-faire and the Marxist reactions
The historical progress of Europe
Conclusions
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Carlos Ramirez Faria
The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations
