Offers its own distinctive contribution to the methodology of economics applied to developing countries. These lectures are 'penetrating and original'"". <EM>Alan Peacock, Economica</EM> <BR>A series of three lectures, this book discusses the scope and limitations of economics in the study of developing...</em>

Asks and answers the question: What are the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist and survive? Focusing on macro factors to understand the problem of poor countries, this book also offers a presentation of economic history in a world perspective, using survival-conditions...