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The Political Economy Of Underdevelopment

Author : De Silva, S.B.D

Publisher: Routledge

Place of Publish: United kingdom

Year: 2011

Page Numbers: 645

Acc. No: 4882

Class No: 338.9 DES-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Development

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-0-415-85136-7

First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality. Viewing underdevelopment as a problem in the non-transformation to capitalism, this analysis is in terms of the character of the dominant capital and of the dominant classes. Underdevelopment thus encompasses the ‘traditional' peasant economy and also the export sector where the ‘modernizing' influence of colonialism was felt. The book finally considers how the contemporary internationalization of capital affected the economies of the Third World.Blurb source-Amazon.com