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1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

British Classical Economists and Underdevelopment in India

Author : William J. Barber

Published in: From Classical Economics to Development Economics

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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At least since W. Arthur Lewis’s pathbreaking contribution — “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour” (1954) — modern students of development economics have required no reminder that economists in the classical tradition were fundamentally concerned with problems of long-term economic growth. The “composite” classical model he then presented drew on their insights to illuminate the dynamics of expansion in the setting of economic dualism.1

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Title
British Classical Economists and Underdevelopment in India
Author
William J. Barber
Copyright Year
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23342-7_4