This paper, based on previously untapped archival sources, offers an assessment of the life and thought of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, a pioneer of development economics and one of the first articulators of both the "Big Push" and "balanced growth" theories. In addition to documenting the early life...

This work seeks to answer the "population question," i.e. the effect of population growth on production per capita. This question has lingered in economic thought for centuries and to this day two general lines of thought can be identified, which might be marked as the "optimist" and the...

Introduction -- Part I Themes in Harvard Economics -- 1. Econometrics at Harvard -- 2. Harvard’s Contributions to Development Economics -- 3. Economic History and Economic Historians at Harvard -- Part II Some Harvard Economists -- 4. Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830–1900) -- 5. Frank W....

The salient feature of the theoretical discussion of development problems is still the rivalry between two approaches. An outline and critique of the dependencia school and the modernization theory is provided in the following article which also points out possibilities of combining both these...