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- Title
The application of development economics: general principles and context specificity.
- Authors
Dow, Alexander C.; Dow, Sheila C.
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to consider the application of development economics at the methodological level. In particular, given the shortcomings of both the modernist and postmodernist approaches to development policy, we consider an alternative approach, drawing on critical realism, which combines the benefits of generality with the benefits of attention to specificity of context. The approach is illustrated by showing how principles in development economics addressing issues of globalisation and peripherality can serve to illuminate some of the causal tendencies at work in a developed economy such as Scotland.
- Subjects
DEVELOPMENT economics; LAND economics; ECONOMIC development; INDUSTRIALIZATION; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 6, p1129
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/bei072