An Institutional Critique of Development Concepts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Streeten (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-80 |
| Publication date | 1970-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975600001958 |
| OpenAlex | W4230675655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A critical examination of economic models soon leads to the examination of concepts, which are the bricks of which the models are built. Such an examination reveals that the bias in our view of economic and social reality enters before the model building begins, at the level where concepts are formed. The formulation of any concept, as I have tried to argue in my chapter on "The Use and Abuse of Models in Development Planning" (I), presupposes two procedures: aggregation of one set of items and isolation of this set from other sets. When we speak of a 'tree' we aggregate birches, beeches, elms, firs, larches, etc., into one category and, at the same time, differentiate them from bushes, shrubs, flowers, ferns, etc
Aggregate (composite) · Combinatorics · Development (topology) · Epistemology · Isolation (microbiology) · Linguistics · Root (linguistics) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Tree (set theory) · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2025 (48) |
| Highly cited | No |