The great ascent : the struggle for economic development in our time / Robert L. Heilbroner.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, Evanston, London : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.Edition: 1st editionDescription: 189 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 338.9
- HD 82 .H39 1963
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | HD 82 .H39 1963 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML20010010 |
Includes map and index.
I. The measure of the challenge -- II. The tableau of underdevelopment -- III. The shackles of backwardness -- IV. The great resolve -- V. The engineering of development -- VI. The speed of development -- VII. The social cost -- VIII. The challenge to the West.
"What is new... is the process of economic development — of a world-wide struggle to escape from the poverty and misery, and not less from the neglect and anonymity, which have heretofore constituted 'life' to the vast majority of human beings. It is not mere rhetoric to speak of this attempted Great Ascent as the first real act of world history... For over one hundred nations, economic development means the chance to become a national entity, to live in the chronicle of recorded events." -- From Chapter I.
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