Gudin rejected industrialization strategy in favor of agricultural investment

Evidence

With all the cards stacked against industrialization strategies—the “recurrence of the long repeated, resilient and unscientific argument of Manoilesco” (Gudin 1958, 5)—Gudin eventually argued in favor of investment in agriculture (and education and health) as promising areas for rapid development. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1311

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Prebisch-Singer thesis and the ECLA industrialization orthodoxy that dependency theorists later built on. — connects to: Gudin backed agrarian credit policy but opposed redistribution of land — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1311

Broader Connections

• Gudin backed agrarian credit policy but opposed redistribution of land #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1311