Paul Streeten

Paul Streeten ( born July 18, 1917 as Paul Hornig in Vienna ) is an English development economist of Austrian origin.

Life

Paul Streeten grew up in an intellectual milieu. Politically active in public and in the underground, he emigrated in 1938 after the "Anschluss " of Austria to Germany to England and took up a study of political economy in Aberdeen. After an odyssey in internment camps in England and Canada, and was severely wounded in the invasion of Sicily Streeten returned to Aberdeen, where he took his Master of Arts.

From 1948 to 1966 Streeten was a Fellow at Oxford at Balliol College. 1964 he was appointed Deputy Director- General of Economic Planning at the Ministry of Overseas Development, later appointed director of the Institute of Development Studies and Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex. 1979 could be Streeten in the U.S. down, first Director of the Overseas Development Institute, Washington, on Professor of Economics at Boston University, and until his retirement was Director of the World Development Institute. He was also a two- time director of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank and worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ), where he was involved in the publication of " Human Development Report ".

Services

Streeten is an author and editor of more than 20 books and about 300 articles in books and journals. He is the editor of the " Oxford Economic Papers ", the "Bulletin of the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics ", the " Journal of Development Studies" and the magazine " World Development ".

Paul Streeten criticized the orthodoxy Samuelson, in particular the methodology and the microeconomics of this new orthodoxy. Much " was the changing circumstances of life is not adequate; neglecting their self - verifying or falsifying effects on the reality that they also often constitute false;. They hide value judgments that would, they made ​​clear, would not be accepted in the postulate of a value-free social science, there is an internally -determined economic system that will move through one-dimensional acting economic actors connected - so says Streeten - a three-fold problem: a moral, political and scientific in real life are morality, politics and economics. strongly interwoven with politics is more or less morality, economics without politics but never conceivable. " Streeten criticized the neoclassical theory and the positivist philosophy. With Thomas Balogh he wrote pamphlets on the weaknesses of the elasticity concept (see "The Coefficient of Ignorance", 1963). He criticized Nicholas Kaldor ( "Values ​​, Facts and the Compensation Principle" ). Important Streetens claims to contribution was " Programs and Prognoses " (1954). He translated Gunnar Myrdal's most important philosophical work "The political element in the national economic doctrine education".

Development Economics

Streeten advocated, primarily to meet the basic needs of the poor in development policy. These include food and clean water, labor and security, education and health, housing and mobility; but also non- material needs for self-determination, self-reliance, participation, national and cultural identity. This could be achieved without a growing gross national product, as well as a high growth rate of the gross national product can be disregarded those needs.

Works

  • Programs and Prognoses, in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 68 1954, p 355-76; German: Programs and forecasts, in: Gérard Gäfgen (ed.): Fundamentals of economic policy. Cologne, Berlin 1968, pp. 53-74.
  • Unbalanced Growth, in: Oxford Economic Papers 11/1959/2. 1959, pp. 167-190.
  • Economic integration. Aspects and Problems. Leiden 1961.
  • The Frontiers of Development Studies. London, Basingstoke 1972.
  • ( with SJ Burki, M. ul Haq, etc.): First Things First. Meeting Basic Human Needs in the Developing Countries. New York, Oxford 1981.
  • Environmental Aspects of Development, in: Economy and Society, 8/1982/2. 1982, p 415-427.
  • Development dichotomies, in: GM Meier, D. Seers (eds. ): Pioneers in Development. Washington, Oxford 1984.
  • Aerial Roots, in: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, no. 157, 1986, pp. 135-159.
  • Changing emphases in Development Theory, in: UE Simonis (eds. ): Development Theory - development practice. A critical accounting. Berlin, 1986, pp. 13-39.
  • ( with PB Doeringer ): How Economic Institutions Affect Economic Performance, in: World Development 18/1990/9, pp. 1249-1253.
  • Thinking about Development. Cambridge 1995.

Translations

  • Gunnar Myrdal: The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory. Translated from the German by Paul Streeten. London, 2nd ed 1955 where:. Paul Streeten: Recent Controversies, pp. 208-217.
  • Gunnar Myrdal: Value in Social Theory. A Selection of Essays on Methodology. Edited by Paul Streeten. London 1958.
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