Transcription of Development Economics: An Overview
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Forthcoming in Barrett, ed., Development Economics: Critical Concepts in Development Studies 4 volumes (London: Routledge, 2007) 1 Development Economics: An Overview Christopher B. Barrett I. Understanding Human Well being: An Integrative Perspective When Routledge invited me to assemble a four volume collection to represent the best of Development economics, I knew it would be a stimulating but daunting challenge. A first cut at enumerating the essential readings in the field yielded a monstrous tome of nearly 5000 pages, more than three times what my editor would permit. The wide range of excellent work by so many talented scholars immediately necessitated hard thematic choices in order to establish appropriate, if inherently arbitrary, boundaries for this project. Much important work would need to be left out in order to tell the story of Development economics compactly and coherently. With its focus on understanding how resource allocation, human behavior, institutional arrangements and private and public policy jointly influence the evolution of the human condition, Development economics is arguably the original and most fundamental field within the discipline of economics, at least as it relates to the social sciences and humanities more broadly.
Development Economics: An Overview ... economics focuses on improving our knowledge of being – or becoming – poor and, more hopefully, about the processes by which people avoid or escape poverty and enjoy ... resulting from an excess …
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