Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution

by Polly Hill

Book Overview

Polly Hill's provocative book examines the disastrous gulf that separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in West Africa and South India, Dr Hill demonstrates in the first, polemical part of her book, how unreliable and western-biased assumptions most development economists base their theoretical work. She shows in particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521310962
• ISBN13: 9780521310963
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"