Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that...

pt. 1. Socio-economic ideology and methodology -- pt. 2. Neoclassical economics : dispersed and decentralized exchange -- pt. 3. Classical political economy : growth and distribution -- pt. 4. Complexity : barriers and bounds to rationality.