Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality

This revised and expanded edition of "Development and Underdevelopment" retains many of the selections that made the first edition so popular for classroom use, while adding new material to make it even more appealing. New material includes: studies that enable readers to trace levels of national development back to the beginning of the 19th century, and in some cases even earlier; income inequality data on more than twice the number of countries included in the first edition; coverage of important theoretical advances; and new work on the role of education in development. The book continues to feature short introductions to each reading, highlighting the significance of the selections.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The Classic Thesis and the Contradictory Evidence - Will the Whole World Eventually Grow Rich?: The Dual Gaps - an Overview of Theory and Research, M.A. Seligson; Stages of Economic Development, W.W. Rostow; Monitoring the World Economy - 1820-1992, A. Maddison; The Persistence of the Gap - Taking Stock of Economic Growth in the Post-World War II Era, J.T. Passe-Smith. Part 2 Domestic Income Inequality - Some Dimensions of the Problem: Economic Growth and Income Inequality, S. Kuznets; Cross-National Evidence of the Domestic Gap, M.S. Ahluwalia; A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality, K. Deininger and L. Squire; Inequality and Insurgency, E.N. Muller and M.A. Seligson. Part 3 The Classic Thesis Revisited - Limits to Convergence: Catching Up, Forging Ahead and Falling Behind, M. Abramovitz; Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare - What the Long-Run Data Show, W.J. Baumol; Productivity Growth, Convergence and Welfare - Comment, J.B. De Long; Could It Be That the Whole World is Already Rich? - a Comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc Measures, J.T. Passe-smith; Forget Convergence - Divergence Past, Present and Future, L. Pritchett. Part 4 Culture, Modernization and Development: The Achievement Motive in Economic Growth, D.C. McClelland; Evaluating the Effect of N-Ach on Economic Growth, J. Lewis; Becoming Modern, A. Inkeles and D.H. Smith; The Confucian Ethic and Economic Growth, H. Kahn; The Culture of Poverty, O. Lewis; Underdevelopment is a State of Mind, L.E. Harrison; On the Sociology of National Development - Theories and Issues, A. Portes; The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development - Theory, Hypotheses and Some Empirical Tests, J. Granato et al. Part 5 Dependency and World-System Theory: The Structure of Dependence, T. dos Santos; Modernization and Dependency - Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment, J.S. Valenzuela and A. Valenzuela; The Present State of the Debate on World Inequality, I. Wallerstein; Transnational Penetration and Economic Growth, V. Bornschier and C. Chase-Dunn; Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment, G. Firebaugh; The Irish Case of Dependency - an Exception to the Exception?, D. O'Hearn; American Penetration and Canadian Development - a Case Study of Mature Dependency, H.-J. Hammer and J.W. Gartrell. Part 6 The State, Growth and Inequality - Rent-Seeking, Urban Bias, the Environment and Democracy: Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa, R.H. Bates; Rent-Seeking or Dependency as Explanations of Why Poor People Stay Poor, E. Weede; Urban Bias and Inequality, M. Lipton; Democracy, Economic Development and Income Inequality, E.N. Muller; Political Regimes and Economic Growth, A. Przeworski and F. Limongi; Growth in East Asia - What We Can and What We Cannot Infer, M. Sarel; Inequality as a Constraint on Growth in Latin America, N. Birdsall and R. Sabot. Part 7 Conclusion: Inequality in a Global Perspective - (Part contents)

About the Author :
Mitchell A. Seligson is Daniel H. Wallace Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. John T Passe-Smith is associate professor of political science at the University of Central Arkansas.

Review :
"The selection of materials is excellent, and the brief introductions to each selection are deft and informative. Impressively, space has also been found for critiques of the most important positions ... The book also provides a convenient and enjoyable review for those who may have followed the literature as it emerged." - Journal of Developing Areas * "Provides an overview of the debate over the causes and dynamics of the persistent and even widening income gap between rich and poor countries and the rich and poor within the poor countries." - Canadian Journal of Political Science * "This high-quality collection ... deals in a balanced way both with internal and international inequality ... Advanced under-graduates and graduate students in international politics, economics, and diplomacy can fruitfully use them." - Choice