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Development as a social fact

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This paper challenges both mainstream notions of development, which treat it as an objective feature of self-contained societies, and constructivist alternatives, which view it as an ethnocentric product of western imperialism. Instead, I argue that development is a social fact that's "not always so clearly discernible," much like the systems of "economic organization" alluded to by Durkheim in The Rules of Sociological Method (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 57), and go on to explore the implications for economic sociology.

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  • Schrank, Andrew, 2024. "Development as a social fact," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 25(2), pages 5-11.
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    1. Dirk Philipsen, 2015. "The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 1, number 10420.
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