Politics in command: Development studies and the rediscovery of social science

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Steve Durlauf (eds), Handbook of Economic Growth (North-Holland, forthcoming). 3. Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches (Fontana, 1977), p. 8. Dudley Seers made essentially the same point in his classic paper, ‘The Birth, Life and Death of Development Economics’, Development and Change, Vol. 10, No. 4 (1979), pp. 707–19. He noted that ‘we really all know now that the economic aspects of the central issues of development cannot be studied…