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This pioneering book appraises earlier literature and proposes methodological, theoretical and analytical tools for understanding the uneven evolution of development. Michael Dunford explores how global development and international, national, regional and social inequalities have been shaped by centuries of colonisation, imperialism, industrialisation and the rise and fall of hegemonic powers.
Advocating for an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, Dunford presents a macro-geographical and macro-historical account of the waves of uneven development that have resulted in an emerging multi-polar world, with Asia returning to the centre of the global economy. Chapters cover a wide range of theoretical perspectives from political economy, structuralist and developmentalist to dependency theories, and from classical location theories to contemporary geographical economics and economic geography. Dunford identifies economic and political mechanisms that drive the forces shaping the uneven course of development and emphasises the dynamics of investment and the roles of state sovereignty and governance capacity.
Rethinking Uneven Development is a vital resource for students and scholars of human geography, development studies, urban and regional studies and political economy.
Contents
Contents
Introduction to Rethinking uneven development
1 Concepts and drivers of uneven (and combined) development
in space (synchrony) and time (diachrony)
2 Government, money, imperialism and uneven development
3 Modes of production, the world in which capitalism emerged
and the assets on which it drew
4 Division of labour, industrial organisation and uneven
development: from Smith to Kaldor
5 Geography and uneven development
6 Structuralist, dependency and world systems theories
7 World development: the 'Little' and 'Great' global divergences
8 From the Golden Age to the North Atlantic financial crisis
and after
9 Uneven regional and national development: Italy, the UK and
China
10 The rise and fall of great powers: macroeconomic
geographies and histories
Bibliography
Index
