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A new concept of development: Basic tenets
1983, hardcover edition, UNESCO / Croom Helm, in English. 212 pages. The author is a political economist. Here he deals with an age-old the desire for progress and the mistrust of how such "progress" affects us. "The author's aim is to clarify the meaning and direction of research in development."
212 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1983
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About the author
François Perroux
65 booksHe was named Professor at the Collège de France, after having taught at the University of Lyon (1928 - 1937) and the University of Paris (1935 - 1955). He founded the Institut de Sciences Economiques Appliquées in 1944.
He was terribly critical of the leading financial and economic policies toward the Third World during the half-century of his career. He said that they took insufficient account of the originality, culture, and concrete situations of the countries concerned, and were too quantitative, too Western in concept, and too centered on the interests of the rich industrialised countries. He counselled the peoples of the Third World to build upon their cultures, their social organisations, and their resources, so as to better the internal coherence of their economies and reduce the effects of domination by the exterior.
In the field of Regional Economics, one of his main contribution's was the concept of poles de croissance or 'growth poles'. It implied that Government policies aimed at the regeneration of a specific local region were critically dependent upon the Input-Output linkages associated with the industry. A 'pole de croissance' is an industry, or group of related industries, that have growth rates above the national average and the capacity to generate growth through the impact of strong input-output linkages.
He was terribly critical of the leading financial and economic policies toward the Third World during the half-century of his career. He said that they took insufficient account of the originality, culture, and concrete situations of the countries concerned, and were too quantitative, too Western in concept, and too centered on the interests of the rich industrialised countries. He counselled the peoples of the Third World to build upon their cultures, their social organisations, and their resources, so as to better the internal coherence of their economies and reduce the effects of domination by the exterior.
In the field of Regional Economics, one of his main contribution's was the concept of poles de croissance or 'growth poles'. It implied that Government policies aimed at the regeneration of a specific local region were critically dependent upon the Input-Output linkages associated with the industry. A 'pole de croissance' is an industry, or group of related industries, that have growth rates above the national average and the capacity to generate growth through the impact of strong input-output linkages.
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November 8, 2012
Publié en 1981, l'ouvrage est un "building bloc" vers une nouvelle théorie du développement, on distingue 3 points principales:
- des critiques des théories économiques : théorie de l'équilibre , théorie kénysienne et finalement la théorie sociale de Marx.
- les mouvements qui ont influencé la doctrine ( philosphique, économiques, sociales et politiques)
- vers une stratégie politique pourtant ( les dialectiques soci, eco, ) =problèmes
- finalement ( solution )
- des critiques des théories économiques : théorie de l'équilibre , théorie kénysienne et finalement la théorie sociale de Marx.
- les mouvements qui ont influencé la doctrine ( philosphique, économiques, sociales et politiques)
- vers une stratégie politique pourtant ( les dialectiques soci, eco, ) =problèmes
- finalement ( solution )
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