POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Real Income, Barter, Developmentalism
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What are development theories: sets of propositions that aim to explain how development has taken place in the past and how it may occur in the future. Origins of developmentalist ideas: the enlightenment, rationalization, civilization, liberation, freedom, truth. John locke, kant: positivism, universalism, division of ethics out of knowledge, economic thought, capitalism, industrialism, the moment industrialization, free enterprise. Modernization and dependency theories [main focus: cultural and social evolutionism comparison of one society (internal natural laws) spencer survival of the fittest, general history, diffusionism influence analysis (natural laws in the spread of winning phenomena, cultural contacts. Imperialism: development or underdevelopment is always defined and measured in relation to the west. Post-war development actors: states the main actors in the moment. International trade organization: world bank, general agreement on tariffs and trade, world trade organization, united nations, neo-government organizations, multi-national corporations. The features of modernization: modernization involves, urbanization based on the nuclear family.
