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Caribbean Economic Thought: Advances, Retreat, Current Challenges

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The reflections provided in this article were presented in the 4th Sam Moyo Memorial Lecture, delivered at the SMAIAS/ASN Summer School in January 2021. The article focuses on the critical tradition of economic knowledge and thought about the socio-economic development of the Caribbean, which began in the last decades of the colonial era. The advances made through the early Independence period were concerned with the problems of individual countries and the region as a whole. The objective was to improve the material economic welfare of the broad masses of Caribbean people while generating the requisite economic growth to sustain an improvement in the general conditions of life. From the thought of W. Arthur Lewis to the Plantation Economy theorists and subsequent critiques, a rich critical tradition emerged, only to be displaced by the onset of the debt crisis and neoliberalism. This article reviews the main elements of this critical tradition, its advances, and retreats, as well as the new challenges presented to it today.

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  • Michael Witter, 2021. "Caribbean Economic Thought: Advances, Retreat, Current Challenges," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 10(3), pages 463-491, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:10:y:2021:i:3:p:463-491
    DOI: 10.1177/22779760211053083
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