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Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development

Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development Agric Hum Values (2011) 28:141–142 DOI 10.1007/s10460-010-9302-x BOOK REVIEW Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development Kumarian Press, Sterling, Virginia, 2009, 221 pp, ISBN 978-1-56549-268-4 Roger Chao Accepted: 10 December 2010 / Published online: 24 December 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Developmental theory has long been riddled with incon- produce development’’ (17)? These to Fforde are the key sistencies between theory and reality, and between one questions we should be asking, prior to assuming devel- country’s development and another’s lack thereof. Whilst opment as a typical algebraic or scientific problem. These many writers have theorized that this may be due to the questions, he argues, can guide our thinking in new, more complex nature of the many variables on which develop- realistic directions. ment depends, a comprehensive, dependable, and valid The book itself is split into three sections, the first being solution to this ‘‘Development Problem’’ remains to be an introduction to the problem of development, the prob- found. Perhaps we have been looking for the wrong type of lems with traditional conceptions of development, and the solution all along. This book reflects the growing disen- orthodox literature surrounding it. Section Two http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 28 (1) – Dec 24, 2010

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1007/s10460-010-9302-x
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Agric Hum Values (2011) 28:141–142 DOI 10.1007/s10460-010-9302-x BOOK REVIEW Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development Kumarian Press, Sterling, Virginia, 2009, 221 pp, ISBN 978-1-56549-268-4 Roger Chao Accepted: 10 December 2010 / Published online: 24 December 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Developmental theory has long been riddled with incon- produce development’’ (17)? These to Fforde are the key sistencies between theory and reality, and between one questions we should be asking, prior to assuming devel- country’s development and another’s lack thereof. Whilst opment as a typical algebraic or scientific problem. These many writers have theorized that this may be due to the questions, he argues, can guide our thinking in new, more complex nature of the many variables on which develop- realistic directions. ment depends, a comprehensive, dependable, and valid The book itself is split into three sections, the first being solution to this ‘‘Development Problem’’ remains to be an introduction to the problem of development, the prob- found. Perhaps we have been looking for the wrong type of lems with traditional conceptions of development, and the solution all along. This book reflects the growing disen- orthodox literature surrounding it. Section Two

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Published: Dec 24, 2010

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