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Dudley Seers, 1920-1983

Cambridge-trained development theorist at University of Sussex.  Dudley Seers who stressed the need for "social development" as the area of concern for development theory. As a result, Seers called for a rather "relativistic" criteria for judging development - in particular, the inapplicability of conventional economics to the Third World. In particular, Seers is highly critical of the use of Western statistical categories - such as "unemployment" - when analyzing Third World countries.   

 

  

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Major Works of Dudley Seers

  • "The Limitations of the Special Case", 1967, in Martin and Knapp, Teaching of Development Economics.
  • "The Meaning of Development", 1969, Int Dev Rev [draft pdf]
  • "New Approaches Suggested by the Colombia Employment Program", 1970, ILR
  • Towards Full Employment: A program for Colombia, 1970.
  • Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations: A programme of action for Ceylon, 1971.
  • "What are We Trying to Measure?", 1972, JDevE
  • "The Political Economy of National Accounting", 1975, in Cairncross and Puri, editors, Distribution and Development Strategy
  • "Life Expectancy as an Integrating Concept in Social and Demographic Analysis and Planning", 1977, Rev of Income and Wealth
  • "The New Meaning of Development", 1977, Int Dev Rev
  • Under-Developed Europe: Studies in core-periphery relations, with B. Schaffer and M. Kiljunen, 1979.
  • "The Birth, Life and Death of Development Economics", 1979, in Development and Change.
  • "The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neoclassical Doctrines", 1980, in Towards a New Strategy of Development
  • (Editor, with G.M. Meier) Pioneers in Development, 1984 [pdf]

 
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Resources on  Dudley Seers

  • "From Seers to Sen: The meaning of economic development", by E. Wayne Nafziger [pdf]
  • "Dudley Seers (1920–1983): His Contributions to Development Perspectives, Policy and Studies", by Richard Jolly, 2009, IDS bulletin
  • Dudley Seers profile at BLDS
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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