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Reviews and Communication: What Do We Know about Economic Development?Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, david_dapice{at}ksg.harvard.edu This article is an idiosyncratic review of several recent books on development, some older ones, and a critique of development economics as applied to promoting development. It discusses various analyses of factors causing economic development or preventing it, suggesting that general theories only go so far and specific knowledge is needed. Some of this knowledge concerns the thinking of elites, their choices of whether or not to stay in their country and under what terms, and how various interest groups relate.
Key Words: development interest group institutions
Journal of Macromarketing, Vol. 28, No. 4,
413-417 (2008) |
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