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Political Ideology and Economic Progress: The Basic Question*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Wilfred Malenbaum  and
Wolfgang Stolper
Wilfred Malenbaum
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Wolfgang Stolper
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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In the underdeveloped countries—where live most of the world's people—the hope for economic progress now flames with great intensity. The new international capital facilities of the postwar period, the new programs for sharing modern science and technology, the new interest of wealthy lands in progress in the poor countries—all these present the latter with an opportunity to be rid of the poverty and squalor of their material existence. Their eyes naturally turn to the more developed countries for capital and technical knowledge, and for ideas.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , April 1960 , pp. 413 - 421
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1960

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References

1 For an analysis of the comparative pre-Plan status and subsequent performance of the two countries, see Malenbaum, Wilfred, “India and China: Development Contrasts,” Journal of Political Economy, LXIV, NO. 1 (February 1956), pp. 1–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and idem, “India and China: Contrasts in Development Performance,” American Economic Review, XLIX, No. 3 (June 1959), pp. 284–309.

2 For an analysis of the comparative status and performance of the two countries, see Wolfgang Stolper, The Structure of the East German Economy, to be published by Harvard University Press. Preliminary results have appeared in Stolper, Wolfgang, “The Labor Force and Industrial Development in Soviet Germany,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXI, No. 4 (November 1957), pp. 518–45CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and idem, “The National Product of East Germany,” Kyklos, XII (April 12, 1959), pp. 131–66. A German translation of the Kyklos article has appeared in Konfunkturpolitik, (West) Berlin, 1959, No. 6, together with two extremely interesting critical discussions by Werner Gebauer, “Eine neue Berechnung des mitteldeutschen Sozialprodukts,” ibid., pp. 344–53, and by Bruno Gleitze, “Niveauentwicklung und Strukturwandlung des Sozialprodukts Mitteldeutsch-lands,” ibid., pp. 374–82.