Arthur Lewis and the Classical Foundations of Development Economics

The present essay provides a detailed investigation of how Lewis revisited classical and Marxian concepts such as productive/unproductive labor, economic surplus, subsistence wages, reserve army and capital accumulation in his influential investigation of economic development. The Lewis 1954 development model is compared to other models advanced at the time by Harrod, Domar, Swan, Kaldor, Solow, von Neumann, Nurkse, Rosenstein-Rodan, Myint and others. Lewis applied the notion of economic duality to open and closed economies, with different historical concerns and results

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Year of publication:	2018
Authors:	Boianovsky, Mauro
Publisher:	[2018]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Entwicklungstheorie \| Development theory \| Klassische Ökonomie \| Classical economics

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (57 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 37, 2019 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 13, 2018 erstellt
Classification:	B12 - Classical ; B29 - History of Economic Thought since 1925. Other ; B31 - Individuals
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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