Dudley Seers, 1920-

Cambridge-trained Sussex development theorist who stressed the need for "social development" as the area of concern for development theory. As a result, called for a rather "relativistic" criteria for judging development - in particular, the inapplicability of conventional economics to the Third World. In particular, Seers is highly critical of the use of Western statistical categories - such as "unemployment" - when analyzing Third World countries.

Major Works of Dudley Seers

• "The Limitations of the Special Case", 1967, in Martin and Knapp, Teaching of Development Economics.
• "The Meaning of Development", 1969, Int Dev Rev
• "New Approaches Suggested by the Colombia Employment Program", 1970, ILR
• Towards Full Employment: A program for Colombia, 1970.
• Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations: A programme of action for Ceylon, 1971.
• "What are We Trying to Measure?", 1972, JDevE
• "The Political Economy of National Accounting", 1975, in Cairncross and Puri, editors, Distribution and Development Strategy
• "Life Expectancy as an Integrating Concept in Social and Demographic Analysis and Planning", 1977, Rev of Income and Wealth
• "The New Meaning of Development", 1977, Int Dev Rev
• Under-Developed Europe: Studies in core-periphery relations, with B. Schaffer and M. Kiljunen, 1979.
• "The Birth, Life and Death of Development Economics", 1979, in Development and Change.
• "The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neoclassical Doctrines", 1980, in Towards a New Strategy of Development

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