Broken mirrors: towards holistic political economies of development, its discontents and alternatives

Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Chapter 1 in Handbook on Alternative Global Development, 2023, pp 2-11 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The need to revisit the development process is more pressing today than any. In this chapter, that story is highlighted and questioned. The case for existing alternatives is also revisited. While more comprehensive these holistic political economies of development and their discontents must also be questioned and, in many cases, questioned. New pathways, alternative theories, and novel practices are discussed and appraised. Overall, it is argued that neither the dominant views nor the existing counter critiques succeed. The alternatives canvassed in this handbook come, perhaps, closest to addressing the existential questions of development, underdevelopment, and alternative development.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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