Author: R. Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: world, uneven, theory
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0631175385
ISBN-13: 9780631175384
This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness. Radhakrishnan’s thought-provoking engagement with theorists and writers from around the world will fascinate readers across a wide range of disciplines.A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global.Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as it seeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nor naively credulous of visions of the world as it sho
Author: Ronald D Eller
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: appalachia, ground, uneven
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0813125235
ISBN-13: 9780813125237
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected. However, supporters of development and of the growth of material production, consumption, and technology decried what they perceived as the isolation and backwardness of the place and sough
Authors:Jose Antonio Ocampo, Rob Vos,
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: development, economic, uneven
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 184813195X
ISBN-13: 9781848131958
Inequality in the world is high and rising. The problem of global uneven development is central to, and inseparable from, the international development agenda. In Uneven Economic Development, leading economists and development experts examine the causes and implications of international economic divergences. This comprehensive and timely book reviews economic growth and structural change patterns since the 1960s, before critically reviewing the respective role and impact of trade liberalization, macroeconomic policies, governance and institutions on comparative national economic performance,
Author: Amitava Krishna Dutt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: development, uneven, distribution, growth
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1990-07-27
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0521381770
ISBN-13: 9780521381772
An examination of the issues of growth and North-South differences from a purely theoretical perspective. It compares the relations between the economies by using formal mathematical models. The author considers four approaches: neoclassical, neo-Marxian, neo-Keynesian and Kalecki-Steindl.
Author: Neil Smith
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: production, space, capital, nature, development, uneven
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 082033099X
ISBN-13: 9780820330990
In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globalization. This third edition features an afterword updating the analysis for the present day.
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: geographical, development, uneven, theory, global, capitalism, spaces
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2006-05-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1844675505
ISBN-13: 9781844675500
An essential introduction to the field of historical geography, which offers a radical new way of understanding global capitalism.Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.In this groundbreaking book, David Harvey shows how the disciplines of historical geography yield decisive new insights into the workings of global capitalism, and i
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: geographical, development, uneven, theory, global, capitalism, spaces
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2006-06-17
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844670651
ISBN-13: 9781844670659
An essential introduction to the field of historical geography, which offers a radical new way of understanding global capitalism. Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporary cap
