Persistent Underdevelopment: Change and Economic Modernization in the West Indies

By Jay R. Mandle

First published in 1996, this insightful and informative text examines the post-emancipation and recent economic history of the Commonwealth Caribbean. Jay R. Mandle offers an explanation of the region's continuing underdevelopment. Through the use of an analytical framework derived from the works of Marx and Kuznets, the book focuses attention on technological change as the driving force behind economic modernization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415593646
• ISBN13: 9780415593649
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"