The Political Economy of Underdevelopment in the Global South The Government-Business-Media Complex /

• Main Authors: van der Merwe, Justin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dodd, Nicole (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Political Economy Series,
• Subjects: Political economy.; Economic development.; Economic policy.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Africa-Politics and government.; International Political Economy.; Development Theory.; Development Policy.; Latin American Politics.; African Politics.

'This volume not only rejuvenates the classical discussion about development and underdevelopment but also develops a highly original proposition on its own, backed up by comprehensive empirical data and thorough quantitative analysis. Moreover, it is not only relevant for scholars of developme...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Chapter 1 The roots of dispossession
• 2. Chapter 2 Different schools, same problems: Development theory in the 20th Century
• 3. Chapter 3 From neoliberalism to post-development: development theory's decline and redefinition
• 4. Chapter 4 Marx, Gramsci, and power networks
• 5. Chapter 5 Uneven development and capital accumulation: The government-business-media complex
• 6. Chapter 6 The government-business-media complex and global chains of dispossession
• 7. Chapter 7 Inputs and outcomes: Debunking aid, trade, and investment as drivers of development
• 8. Chapter 8 The Status of development, aid, trade and investment in the global South
• 9. Chapter 9 Modelling development in the global South
• 10. Chapter 10 Reversing dispossession.