1950s development consensus focused on output growth without prescribing method.
Evidence
Röpke condemned, in other words, the very feature that made development a consensus internationally in the 1950s: that it concentrated on increasing output without being overly prescriptive about the route used to arrive at the goal. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 526
Categorization
- DEFINE: Useful definition of what the 1950s development consensus actually was — output-focused and method-agnostic — which clarifies the period.
- XREF: Connects to growth/development historiography, e.g., economic historians’ treatments of modernization theory as an international consensus. — connects to: 1950s development economics featured real debates, not a single orthodoxy — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1335; Development scholars by the late 1950s saw capital and technology as insufficient for growth. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 336; Bauer defined development as widening freely chosen options, not mere output growth — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1315
Broader Connections
- 1950s development economics featured real debates, not a single orthodoxy
#qualifies(0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1335 - Bauer defined development as widening freely chosen options, not mere output growth
#contradicts(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1315 - Development scholars by the late 1950s saw capital and technology as insufficient for growth.
#complicates(0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 336