From Getting the Development Question Wrong to Bringing Emancipation Back In
Re-reading Alice Amsden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3884392 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hae‐yung Song (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1554-1578 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12509 |
| OpenAlex | W2935996099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 64 |
This article appraises Alice Amsden's theory of development. In particular, it focuses on Amsden's juxtaposing of the concrete and the universal, and the national and the global, as antithetical, and her prioritizing of the former over the latter. The author argues that this key feature of Amsden's work reduces the concept of development to a nationally determined process and empties capitalist development of its class content. It is argued that Amsden's primary focus on why and how development occurs in the Third World bypasses the question of what development is, thereby reinforcing 'Third World developmentalism', and removes the emancipatory content from the concept of development. Given the continued legacy of Amsden's theory, as evidenced in recent debates, and the inadequacy of extant Marxist critiques in addressing its conceptual and political problems, this article proposes an alternative conceptualization of concrete-general and national-global relations based on Marx's critique of political economy, and calls for the resuscitation of the emancipatory content of the concept of development
Conceptualization · Developmentalism · Emancipation · Epistemology · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Social Policy and Reform Studies
All That Is Solid Melts into Air
The Rise of “The Rest”
Time, Labor, and Social Domination
The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism
Breaking the mould
The capitalist world-economy
The Development of Underdevelopment
Ethnic Nationalism in Korea
Multiethnic Japan
The New Imperialism
Bringing production and employment back into development
Revisiting development theory
Alice H. Amsden’s contributions to Development Economics
Inductive method and development perspective
State-led development reconsidered
Neoliberalism, the Developmental State and Civil Society in Korea
Economic crisis in Korea and the degraded developmental state
The developmental state in the era of globalization
Korea
The theory and practice of building developmental states in the Global South
World System Structure
Industrial convergence, globalization, and the persistence of the North-South divide
The Politics of Developmental State Persistence
The Asian Crisis
Third World Industrialization
Compressed modernity and its discontents
Trotsky, Gerschenkron and the political economy of late capitalist development
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The origins and development of the Northeast Asian political economy
The East Asian developmental state and the Great Recession
Taiwan's Economic History
Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences
Predatory, developmental, and other apparatuses
The Last Refuge of the Noble Savage? A Critical Assessment of Post-Development Theory
Alice Amsden's impact on Latin America
"The South Korean "Miracle
The new development economics
The Lessons of East Asian Development
The Chaebol and the US Military-Industrial Complex
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle
Economic Development and Foreign Control in South Korea
Democracy against Labour
Korea and Taiwan
The End of Peripheries? On the Enduring Relevance of Structuralism for Understanding Contemporary Global Development
Alice Amsden
Global Capital and the National State
South Korea
Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective
Building a Developmental State
Crisis management and the diversity of capitalism
The (im)possibility of development studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |