A Generalized Linkage Approach to Development, with Special Reference to Staples

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This chapter turns to Hirschman's “linkage effects”—the means through which growth sectors can change the rest of the economy. First proposed in his 1958 book, The Strategy of Economic Development, the concept of linkage effects in this chapter is applied to how primary exports, or “staples,” shape development. Refining what he calls “micro-Marxism”—to examine the local, smaller-scale fusions of technology and production that have larger-scale social effects—he lays out a complex inventory of linkage effects. Some are even more than just economic; they can be social and political as well. The result is the expansion of variables that can account for the varieties of pathways to capitalist development.

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