Approaches to economic development / Norman S. Buchanan and Howard S. Ellis.

Part I: An analytical view of the problem, 3 -- 1. What is an underdeveloped area?, 3 -- 2. The determinants of real income: resources and their productivity in underdeveloped areas, 23 -- 3. Capital accumulation and allocation, 51 -- 4. Social and cultural factors in development, 74 -- 5. Demographic factors in development, 92 -- Part II: Economic development as recorded history, 119 -- 6. Introduction to part two: progress in the past and present, 119 -- 7. Early economic development: England, 126 -- 8. Early economic development in western Europe and Europe overseas, 152 -- 9. The economic development of japan: 1868-1914, 175 -- 10. Economic development of the U.S.S.R., 190 -- 11. The pace of material progress in the past, 213 -- Part III: Achieving development in the contemporary world, 237 -- 12. Agricultural development-for increased welfare, 237 -- 13. Commerce and industry in economic development, 267 -- 14. Domestic financing of development: private saving, 298 -- 15. Domestic financing of development: government sources and the application of funds, 323 -- 16. Financing economic development from foreign private capital, 343 -- 17. Public loans and grants to underdeveloped countries, 361 -- 18. Underdeveloped countries in international trade, 382 -- 19. A general view of economic development, 406 -- 20. Interests and responsibilities of the United States, 429 -- Appendices, 455 -- Index of authors, 473 -- Subject index, 479.