Towards a Socio-Liberal Theory of World Development
A study of the determinants of world development from 1960 onwards, using advanced statistical techniques and data from up to 171 countries and territories. Arno Tausch also debates the perspectives for world socialism and for neo-corporatism in the indus
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David Glover and Ken Kusterer SMALL FARMERS, BIG BUSINESS William D. Graf (editor) THE INTERNA TIONALIZATION OF THE GERMAN POLITICAL ECONOMY Betty J. Harris THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN PERIPHERY Steven Kendall Holloway THE ALUMINIUM MULTINATIONALS AND THE BAUXITE CARTEL Matthew Martin THE CRUMBLING FA(ADE OF AFRICAN DEBT NEGOTIATIONS James H. Mittelman OUT FROM UNDERDEVELOPMENT Paul Mosley (editor) DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AND POLICY REFORM Dennis C. Pirages and Christine Sylvester (editors) TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, J. Peter Figueroa and J. Edward Greene (editors) CONFLICT, PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN Frederick Stapenhurst POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS AROUND THE NORTH ATLANTIC Peter Utting ECONOMIC REFORM AND THIRD-WORLD SOCIALISM Fiona Wilson SWEATERS: GENDER, CLASS AND WORKSHOP-BASED INDUSTRY IN MEXICO David Wurfel and Bruce Burton (editors) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FOREIGN POLICY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Towards a Socio-Liberal Theory of World Development AmoTausch
F ederal Ministry of Labour Division of European Integration, Vienna Austrian Embassy, Warsaw and Associate Professor of Political Science Innsbruck University
in collaboration with
Fred Prager Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-12284-4 ISBN 978-1-349-12282-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-12282-0 © Arno Tausch 1993
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 18t edition 1993 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the Uni ted States of America in 1993 ISBN 978-0-312-06210-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tausch, Arno, 1951Towards a socio-liberal theory of world development / Arno Tausch [with Fred Prager]. p. cm. - (International political economy series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-06210-1 I. Economic development. 2. Capitialism. I. Title. 11. Series. HD82.T33 1993 91-27475 338.9--dc20 CIP
Opinions expressed in this book are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Austrian Government.
'Third World discourse that intends to promote Third World interests may eventually serve to legitimize a growth-impeding social structure by omitting to criticise the structural foundations of the behavior of the Third World's privileged classes.' Hartmut Elsenhans, 1983: 26 'Thus, it is not necessary to change the entire world, to have a New International Economic Order, in order to abolish poverty. Rather, if each country would embark on a programme to aboIish the poverty within its borders, the world would soon be changed in the process.' Keith Griffin, 1981: 226
Contents List 0/ Figures List 0/ Tables List 0/ Abbreviations Pre/ace Fred Prager: An Appreciation
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1 Introduction 2 World Society Approaches to Development
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3 Neo-Dependency Approaches
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4 Poland in the Capitalist World Economy - Tbe Limits of Wallerstein's Approach
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5 A Socio
