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 dudley seers economist
dudley seers

seers is famous for replacing the `` growth fetishism '' of the early post war period with a greater concern with social development .
he stressed the relativistic nature of judgements about development and questioned the value of the neoclassical approach to economics .
writing on the criteria for development nixson reports seers argument that '' `` surely the values we need are staring us in the face , as soon as we ask ourselves : what are the necessary conditions for a universally accepted aim , the realisation of the potential of human personality ? '' ''
-lrb- seers in baster -rrb- .
assuming that the aim and yardstick of development is implied by this seers goes on to identify a number of `` objectives for development '' for developing countries : that family incomes should be adequate to provide a subsistence package of food , shelter , clothing and footwear .
that jobs should be available to all family heads , not only because this will ensure that distribution of income will generally achieve subsistence consumption levels but also because a job is something without which personality can not develop .
that access to education should be increased and literacy ratios raised .
that the populace should be given an opportunity to participate in government .
that national independence should be achieved in ` the sense that the views of other governments do not largely predetermine one 's own government 's decisions ' . ''
-lrb- nixson in colman and nixson economics of change in less developed countries -rrb- there is explicitly in seers a sequently aspect to this .
as progress is made towards the economic goals , that is ` undernourishment , unemployment and inequality dwindle ' . .
` educational and political aims become increasingly important objectives of development ' .
