Interdependent Development

<p>Rather than being a book about ‘development’ per se this work first published in 1975 is instead a book about ideas about development designed for those drawn by a concern over social injustice into the development field.</p><p>In a selective review of theory which gives particular emphasis to the spatial dimension in Western Marxist and neo-Marxist thought Harold Brookfield traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem of development from the days before the ‘underdeveloped countries’ were considered to be a major problem through the years dominated by ‘economic growth’ to the more searching approaches of the contemporary era. The central argument of the book is that development is a ‘totality’ which cannot properly be understood by separation into parts. The ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ countries constitute one interdependent system and change in one cannot be understood without consideration of the other.</p>