Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP12590
Authors: Ravi Kanbur
Abstract: This paper attempts to understand Asian Drama in the context of the development debates of its time, and in terms of the sensibilities that Gunnar Myrdal—the brilliant economic theorist and philosopher of knowledge, and the Swedish politician—brought to the conceptualization of the problems and prospects of development. The paper covers: (i) what Gunnar Myrdal brought to the analysis of development from his long, varied and distinguished academic and practitioner career; (ii) the development terrain in the mid-twentieth century; and (iii) how Asian Drama lay on that terrain and in the remaining years of Gunnar Myrdal’s continued eventful life. The two central questions posed in the paper are: (i) How did Gunnar Myrdal’s broad experience and perspective influence Asian Drama? (ii) How did Asian Drama influence the development debate?
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Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Myrdal's experiences (P39) | Myrdal's analytical perspective on development (O20) |
| Myrdal's analytical perspective on development (O20) | conceptualization of development problems (Asian Drama) (O11) |
| Asian Drama (N85) | development debate (O10) |
| Asian Drama (N85) | understanding poverty and state intervention (H53) |