Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Economic Inequality -- 2. Interracial Goals -- 3. Investment in Underdeveloped Groups -- 4. Discrimination in Employment -- 5. Upward Mobility -- 6. Unemployment -- 7. Entrepreneurship -- 8. Colonial Relations -- 9. Aftermath of Independence -- Postscript...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Simon Kuznets (1933), 'National Income', in Edwin R.A. Seligman (ed) and Alvin Johnson (ed) (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Volume Eleven: Morbidity-Parties, Political, New York, NY: Macmillan, 205-24 -- Simon Kuznets (1955), 'Economic...

Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their economic stability posed by demands for a new international economic order? Are the developing countries wrong to assume that their economic advancement depends on a transfer of wealth from the richer nations? Sir W. Arthur Lewis's...

This chapter presents an investigation on the availability of the current development theory, in the writings of the 18th century. The theory of economic development established itself in Britain in the century and a half running from about 1650 to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. The chapter...