Development and underdevelopment : the political economy of inequality / edited by Mitchell A. Seligson, John T. Passé-Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The dual gaps : an overview of theory and research / Mitchell A. Seligson -- The gap between rich and poor countries / David Morawetz -- The persistence of the gap : taking stock of economic growth in the post-World War II era / John T Passé-Smith -- Income inequality : some dimensions of the problem / Montek S. Ahluwalia -- Economic growth and income inequality / Simon Kuznets -- Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind / Moses Abramovitz -- Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare : what the long-run data show / William J. Baumol -- Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare : comment / J. Bradford De Long -- Could it be that the whole world is already rich? : a comparison of RGDP/pc and GNP/pc measures / John T Passé-Smith -- Basic needs and growth-welfare trade-offs / Bruce E. Moon and William J. Dixon -- The achievement motive in economic growth / David C. McClelland -- Becoming modern / Alex Inkeles and David H. Smith -- The Confucian ethic and economic growth / Herman Kahn -- Underdevelopment is a state of mind / Lawrence E. Harrison -- On the sociology of national development : theories and issues / Alejandro Portes -- The structure of dependence / Theotonio dos Santos -- Modernization and dependency : alternative perspectives in the study of Latin American underdevelopment / J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela -- The present state of the debate on world inequality / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Wallerstein's world capitalist system : a theoretical and historical critique / Theda Skocpol -- Transnational penetration and economic growth / Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Financial dependence in the capitalist world economy and the distribution of income within states / Edward N. Muller -- The Irish case of dependency : an exception to the exception? / Denis O'Hearn -- Inequality and rebellion in Central America / John A. Booth -- Governments and agricultural markets in Africa / Robert H. Bates -- Rent-seeking or dependency as explanations of why poor people stay poor / Erich Weede -- Urban bias and inequality / Michael Lipton -- Urban bias and economic growth in cross-national perspective / Erich Weede -- The effects of democracy on economic growth and inequality / Larry Sirowy and Alex Inkeles -- Big business and the state : Latin America and East Asia compared / Gary Gereffi -- The rise and crisis of the dragon economies / Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld -- Inequality in a global perspective : directions for further research / Mitchell A. Seligson.