Colonial economics assumed colonies should export raw materials, not industrialize

Evidence

“Industrialization was not part of colonial economics because the comparative advantage of the colonies was held to be the export of raw materials for the industries in the metropolitan countries” (Pieterse 2001, 5). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1343

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Mont Pèlerin debates on development policy and the comparative-advantage case against industrialization, and to how classical trade theory legitimated colonial economic roles. — connects to: Self-determination threatened Western access to colonial raw materials — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 294; Bauer argued industrialization did not require government intervention or raw materials — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1318; Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 246 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The colonial pact forbade African industrialisation and monopolised colonial trade #corroborates (0.95) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 62
• Colonial economic relations are structurally one-sided and uneven #expands (0.90) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 822
• Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy #expands (0.88) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 246
• Colonialism dismantled viable local economies to serve metropolitan profit #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 61