The progress of underdeveloped areas.
Series: Harris Foundation lectures,; 1951
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Technical assistance; Developing countries
Notes: The appeal of communism to the underdeveloped peoples, by M. Watnick.--Problems of economic policy: America's aims and the progress of underdeveloped countries, by J. Viner. Personality and culture problems of Point IV, by S.P. Hayes, Jr. The Point IV program of the United States, by K. Bekker. Economic development and public finance, by H.S. Bloch. Technical aid from the viewpoint of the aid-receiving countries, by G. Hakim. Effects of industrialization on the markets of industrial countries, by A.O Hirschman.
Table of contents: title: The historical approach to economic growth: Economic backwardness in historical perspective, by A. Gerschenkron. Political elites and the process of economic development, by R.K. Lamb. International migration and the asquisition of new skills, by O. Handlin. State control and free enterprise in their impact on economic growth by W.T. Easterbrook.; title: The cultural aspects of economic growth: Cultural and personality factors affecting economic growth, by R. Linton. The problem of adapting societies to new tasks, by M.J. Herskovits. Some sources of the vulnerability of the structures of relatively nonindustrialized societies to those of highly industrialized societies, by M. J. Levy. The problem of selective culture change, by M.E. Opler. The interrelations between cultural factors and the acquisition of new technical skills, by W.R. Goldschmidt.