Lecture 6. Colonial Empire and the World Economy
Diversion on method: scaling up the self, scaling…
August 11, 201453m 40s
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Diversion on method: scaling up the self, scaling down the world (Shakespeare, Gandhi). The Lewis model is traced to theories of development that hinge on the rural-urban division of labour. A racist world society divided between rich and poor countries was formed c.1900, not by centuries of European colonialism.
W Arthur Lewis The Evolution of the International Economic Order (1978)