Reconstructing development theory: international inequality, institutional reform and social emancipation

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Reconstructing Development Theory for the 21st Century -- The argument -- Part I: The Nature of Development Theory -- 1 The Crisis in Development Theory -- Paradigm conflicts and the developmental crisis -- Science, agency and developmental transitions -- Positivism, atomistic individualism and cultural relativism -- Development theory, western imperialism and cultural autonomy -- From right- or left-wing structuralism to neoliberalism -- Conclusions -- 2 The Basic Assumptions of Development Theory -- The idea of development and structural change -- Development as a normative aspiration -- Incrementalism, planning and developmental transitions -- Managing transitions: structuralism, markets and dualistic development -- Teleology, linearity and hybridity in development theory -- Conclusions -- 3 Evolutionary Institutional Change and Developmental Transitions -- Agency, institutional change and developmental transitions -- An evolutionary approach to developmental transformations -- Positivism, methodological individualism and evolutionary change -- Corporate capitalism, extended cooperation and uneven development -- Evolutionary theory, cultural relativism and dualistic development -- Evolutionary transformations, science and the politics of development -- Conclusions -- PART II: The Institutional Arrangements of Liberal Democratic Capitalism -- 4 Market Societies, Open Systems and Institutional Pluralism -- From paradigm conflicts to liberal institutional pluralism -- The structural and normative implications of institutional pluralism -- The benefits, costs and social consequences of market-based systems -- The political implications of economic regulation -- Conclusions.