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Pioneers in Development
Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers,
editors
These "Pioneers in Development" are
among those whose articles, reports,
and books came to dominate thinking
about development economics in the late
1940s and 1950s: Lord Bauer, Colin
Clark, Albert 0. Hirschman, Sir Arthur
Lewis, Gunnar Myrdal, Raul Prebish,
Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan, Walt
Whitman Rostow, H. W. Singer, and Jan
Tinbergen. They shaped the subject by
introducing concepts, deducing
principles, and modeling the process of
development.
The pioneers were asked to assess the
main themes of their early work and to
reconsider their assumptions, concepts,
and policy prescriptions in the light of
development during the succeeding
decades. Their individual chapters
recapture the intellectual excitement,
expectations, and activism of that
unique period. Commentary is provided
by economists of the following
generation, who appraise their elders'
ideas with the benefit of hindsight.
An introductory chapter by Gerald M.
Meier sets the stage, outlining some of
the intellectual trends and institutional
features that shaped the political and
economic environment of this formative
period. The final survey chapter by Paul
Streeten synthesizes various issues in
development thought and points toward
the resolution of unsettled questions in
the subject.
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