Biography of a Subject: An Evolution of Development Economics

by Gerald M. Meier

Book Overview

The study of economic development is one of the newest, most exciting, and most challenging branches of the broader discipline of economics and political economy. Although one could claim that Adam Smith was the first "development economist", the systematic study of the problems and processes of economic development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has emerged only over the past five decades. This biography of the subject of economic development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195170032
• ISBN13: 9780195170030
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"