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The Birth, Life and Death of Development Economics

(Revisiting a Manchester Conference)

Dudley Seers

Dudley Seers

Dudley Seers is Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and was Director of the inter-disciplinary M. Phil. Course in Development Studies, 1975-77. His publications include ‘The Limitations of the Special Case’ Bulletin (Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics, 1962); ‘What are we trying to Measure?’ Journal of Development Studies (1972); ‘Back to the Ivory Tower? The Professionalisation of Development Studies and their Extension to Europe’ IDS Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1977). He is co-editor of Underdeveloped Europe: Studies in Core-Periphery Relations (Harvester Press, 1979) and of two forthcoming symposia on Unequal Development and Regional Integration (one on the experience of Western Europe, the other on the implications of the enlargement of the EEC).

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First published: October 1979
Citations: 54
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