DVM 2505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Walt Whitman Rostow, Symbolic Power, Decolonization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2505
• Professor: Modeste Mba Talla

Document Summary

How newly decolonized countries can stimulate growth. Explains how communism cannot offer ways to reach this objective. Steps of economic growth (1962: traditional society, preconditions for take-off, take off, progress and maturity, mass consumption. Responds to the question of sustainable growth. Rosto(cid:449)"s su(cid:272)(cid:272)ess is e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) the roots of a traditio(cid:374) that guara(cid:374)tees legiti(cid:373)a(cid:272)(cid:455) Modernization: another form of westernization (western-central approach) Unit of analysis: national economy (not other human/social factors such as education, etc. ) Ge(cid:374)eralizatio(cid:374) = does(cid:374)"t talk a(cid:271)out i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual (cid:374)eeds o(cid:374)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) for all. Need to recognize fundamental differences between industrialized countries and others. Need to look at symbolic violence by the dominant paradigm of modernization. This pole is often characterized by core (key) industries around which linked industries develop, mainly through direct and indirect effects. I(cid:374) fa(cid:448)our of the redefi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of the poli(cid:272)(cid:455) of gro(cid:449)th a(cid:374)d (cid:862)de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Keynes argues that economic problems can only be solved by attacking the underlying economic structures.