This major new textbook has been specifically written for students in Development Studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation. Organised around four major themes, it is the only textbook in this field to present critically...

Acknowledgements -- Preface / Mario Damill, Martín Rapetti and Guillermo Rozenwurcell -- An introduction to Roberto Frenkel's contributions to the economic ideas in Latin America / Mario Damill, Daniel Kampel and Guillermo Rozenwurcell -- Pricing decisions, inflation and stabilization --...

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...