Seminar_2_Different theories of development_Group_1 by Charel Becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo Kiely chapter 3. 23 January Modernization, dependency and development en-us 2017-01-23 11:18:39 UTC 2017-01-23 21:58:40 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. What can you say about the non-aligned movement? For example, where did the impulse to set it up come from? Who were some of its first figures? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148669423
The non-alignment movement was political as well as economic. Championed by India's Nehru and Egypt's Nasser it promoted a relative neutrality towards the blocs of the Cold War; the US and the USSR. Additionally it emphasized an alternative developmental path rejecting the western/soviet consensus.]]> 2017-01-23 11:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148669423 2. How does modernisation go against neoclassical economic theory and fit in with the demands of the non-aligned movement? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148670542
As neoclassical theory emphasizes comparative advantage: trade based on specialization and the production of selected high-quality goods, modernization's stress of industrialization to achieve a certain status quo (of western standards) was rejected by the non-alignment bloc.]]> 2017-01-23 11:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148670542 3. Why did the critical development theory called dependency theory, the creation of Raul Prebisch, fit with modernisation theory? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148671276
Both the modernization and the dependence theory put an emphasis on industrialization as the primary motor for development.

]]> 2017-01-23 11:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148671276 4. How did import substitution go against the neoclassical theory of comparative advantage? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148671636
See 2. Additionally, where comparative advantage promotes the specialized production of selected goods, import substitution is a highly protectionist policy. As such the goods produced under this economic model would often be of lesser quality.]]> 2017-01-23 11:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148671636 5. What are the preconditions for take off, according to Rostow? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148672211
Rostow identifies the development of trade, the beginnings of rational, scientific ideas and the emergence of an elite that reinvests rather than squanders its wealth as the preconditions for take-off. They are thus part if the 2nd of 5 steps in the modernization process.]]> 2017-01-23 11:36:18 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148672211 6. How might industrialisation end in the convergence of the three worlds? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148672856
In essence, convergence stands for standardization or unification. Through the process of modernization it was believed that the Second and the Third world would eventually subscribe to Western values such as individualism, equality of opportunity and tolerance. This would allow for lesser social unrest and class conflict in the respective Worlds, effectively creating a global, industrial hegemony.]]> 2017-01-23 11:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148672856 7. What were the secondary motives for promoting industrialisation in the third world by countries in the first and second worlds? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148673561
I am unsure here, it seems to be the same as Q.6?]]> 2017-01-23 11:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148673561 8. What were Stalin’s ideas about the evolution of societies? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148673830
Stalin wrote that "First the productive forces of societies change and develop, and then, depending on these changes and in conformity with them, men's relation of production, their economic relations, change". He identified "the laws of development of society" by this, proposing the five following stages: primitive communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and communism.]]> 2017-01-23 11:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148673830 9. What contradictions were involved in the Soviets providing support for Egypt, Somalia and Guinea? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148675861
The above countries were given Soviet support for their promotion of the "prerequisites for socialism" despite at heart being capitalist. It can be understood as an aim of the Soviet Union to forge ideological/political ties with these nations based on economic aid. It is noteworthy however, that especially Egypt had a large communist party, which were it not for British intervention might well have become the ruling party of the country.]]> 2017-01-23 11:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148675861 10. What is the issue with judging modernisation in an isolated way, divorced from the context in which it arises? charel_becker https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148676431
MT assumes that there is an unproblematic transition from traditional society to modernity

]]> 2017-01-23 11:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148676431 11. Does the author think that the social relations of production in the West, and especially in the US, should be emulated? katrina_domina1 https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697383 2017-01-23 13:34:45 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697383 11. Does the author think that the social relations of production in the West, and especially in the US, should be emulated? katrina_domina1 https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697431 What does it mean???

]]> 2017-01-23 13:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697431 12. How is modernisation linked to inequality? katrina_domina1 https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697803 2017-01-23 13:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/charel_becker/je6bvh4sqspo/wish/148697803