Economists who founded development economics after the Second World War and the structuralist, dependency and planning schools of Latin America, Asia and Africa. An economist belongs here when the cited article ties the person to dual economy models, structuralism, dependency theory or national planning. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Structuralist and Early Development Economists, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
All Structuralist and Early Development Economists
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Celso Furtado
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
Gunnar Myrdal
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
Raul Prebisch
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
Samir Amin
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
W. Arthur Lewis
O - Economic Development, Innovation, and Growth
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Wikipedia: Raul Prebisch
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Raúl Prebisch (April 17, 1901, April 29, 1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory.
Wikipedia: Celso Furtado
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His work focuses on development and underdevelopment and on the persistence of poverty in peripheral countries throughout the world.
Wikipedia: Samir Amin
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He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of dependency theory.
Wikipedia: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
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He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure, and for being one of the members of the first economic Planning Commission of independent India.
History of Economic Thought Website: W. Arthur Lewis profile
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Lewis revolutionized the field with his seminal 1954 paper on the "dual economy" problem in economic development.
New World Encyclopedia: Gunnar Myrdal
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Probably the greatest impact Myrdal has had on the social sciences is his focused and constant demand to draw on all individual and specialized social science categories in order to understand problems such as racism , underdevelopment, and all the problems the developing world faced.
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