POLB90H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dependency Theory, Social Change, Natural Disaster
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Polb90 tuesday september 21, 2010 - lecture 2: development: anatomy of a term, classical political economy and england"s improvement . The term development is a meta-narrative: a vision of the long term direction of history, a philosophical construct, an idea that there is motion. Aspects of development: examined from many angles, economic dev. Measureds by the expansion of economic activity. People don"t measure their wealth by how much/little they participate w/i the market: social development. Income is only to aspire to things that make us fully human . Frustration with p/capita income as a measure of dev. This term has not maintained the same definitionover time. Encouraged the use of cars, fossil fuels: autonomy for development. Dependency theory an evaluation of the german economy by the english economy. Saw world society as an integrated whle. West developed at the expense of the colonies: the couldn"t development policy of their own, capacity building.
