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The Haitian Dilemma Reexamined: Lessons from the Past in the Light of Some New Economic Theory

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A good part of our knowledge of how economies develop can be attributed to historical observation, and only the historical ‘laboratory’ is large enough to offer the development economist the variety required for generalization and construction of theories of wide applicability.1 Unfortunately, the economics profession has often failed to recognize this reality, and has proceeded instead in an armchair fashion.

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Lundahl, M. (2011). The Haitian Dilemma Reexamined: Lessons from the Past in the Light of Some New Economic Theory. In: Poverty in Haiti. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304932_5

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