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From Getting the Development Question Wrong to Bringing Emancipation Back In: Re‐reading Alice Amsden
Abstract
This article appraises Alice Amsden's theory of development. In particular, it focuses on Amsden's juxtaposing of the concrete and the universal, and the national and the global, as antithetical, and her prioritizing of the former over the latter. The author argues that this key feature of Amsden's work reduces the concept of development to a nationally determined process and empties capitalist development of its class content. It is argued that...
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Title
From Getting the Development Question Wrong to Bringing Emancipation Back In: Re‐reading Alice Amsden
Published Date
Apr 12, 2019
Journal
Volume
50
Issue
6
Pages
1554 - 1578
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