Development: Polemic and Perspectives
Kaushik Basu
WORLD ECONOMIC DEVELOP­MENT: 1979 AND BEYOND by Herman Kahn Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1980, 519 pp., 125.00
Sept-Oct 1980, volume 5, No 9/10

THIS is a book about the immediate past and the distant future of mankind. It looks at the recent development ex­perience of the world, particularly Taiwan and South Korea, and goes on to make predictions and give advice. But that is not all, for this is a book of disconcert­ing diversity. If you are an economist wondering about the causes of inflation you may turn to pages 294-325. If you are a mother worried about your child’s upbringing,  just glance through pages 474-479. And I could go on and on.

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