Titlebook: Challenging the Orthodoxies; Richard M. Auty (Senior Lecturer),John Toye (Direc Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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n perverse. Who in their senses would want to challenge true opinions and right judgements? This is not our purpose, however, or that of the contributors to this book. Orthodoxy has since taken on an extended meaning. Today it carries the implication of imposing an opinion or judgement . it were tru

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then at least for those having adopted ‘prudent’ economic policies. In other words, the present situation of Latin America is used – with cautious caveats regarding sustainability – as the practical vindication of Bretton Woods-type adjustment policies.

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tered the equilibrium state previously existing (TED, p. 64). According to Schumpeter, such change was a rule initiated by producers rather than consumers of final products. It involved such things as the introduction of a new good or new method of production, the opening of a new market, the conque

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with which all the authors attack the core concept of development, and also, given their attitude, for its being called a dictionary! ‘The idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape’, says Sachs in the Introduction (Sachs 1992). In the name of development the rest of the wo

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oncerning health policy reform tend therefore to be conducted within this framework. Even among the most ardent advocates of ‘the market’ such beliefs find resonance. For example, Margaret Thatcher, speaking in 1983, argued that ‘the principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, re

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mate place at the table in development studies. The questions it raises, and the techniques it incorporates, have challenged all students of development. This is so despite the fact that the empirical relevance of some key concepts is untried, and the concept of sustainable development remains more