The progress of underdeveloped areas.

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Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1952]
Description:	x, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Harris Foundation lectures. 1951
Subject:	Technical assistance Technical assistance. Developing countries Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 10 has original dustjacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/148397

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Other authors / contributors:	Hoselitz, Bert F. (Bert Frank), 1913-1995 ed.
Notes:	The appeal of communism to the underdeveloped peoples, by M. Watnick.--Problems of economic policy: America's aims and the progress of underdeveloped countries, by J. Viner. Personality and culture problems of Point IV, by S.P. Hayes, Jr. The Point IV program of the United States, by K. Bekker. Economic development and public finance, by H.S. Bloch. Technical aid from the viewpoint of the aid-receiving countries, by G. Hakim. Effects of industrialization on the markets of industrial countries, by A.O Hirschman.

Table of Contents:

The historical approach to economic growth: Economic backwardness in historical perspective, by A. Gerschenkron. Political elites and the process of economic development, by R.K. Lamb. International migration and the asquisition of new skills, by O. Handlin. State control and free enterprise in their impact on economic growth by W.T. Easterbrook
The cultural aspects of economic growth: Cultural and personality factors affecting economic growth, by R. Linton. The problem of adapting societies to new tasks, by M.J. Herskovits. Some sources of the vulnerability of the structures of relatively nonindustrialized societies to those of highly industrialized societies, by M. J. Levy. The problem of selective culture change, by M.E. Opler. The interrelations between cultural factors and the acquisition of new technical skills, by W.R. Goldschmidt.

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