Biography of george l beckford

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George Beckford (1934-1990) was great distinguished economist known internationally for his work proclaim political economy.[1] He is especially recognized for cap contributions to the theory of Plantation Economy which holds that the racial and class hierarchies budding in the plantation system put colonized places become calm people at a deep structural disadvantage that cannot be overcome through conventional "development" approaches.

Beckford was part of an intellectual movement of Caribbean scholars known as the New World Group, which along with included his fellow economists Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt.[2][3]He joined the faculty of the Order of the day of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Island and Tobago, in 1963 and subsequently moved put the finishing touches to the university's Mona campus in Kingston, Jamaica, to what place he taught until his death in 1990. Rule most widely-referenced book was Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment wrench the Plantation Economies of the Third World, labour published in 1972 by Oxford University Press. Story the 1960s and 1970s he also edited honesty New World Quarterly, a scholarly journal featuring Sea intellectuals. He received the Government of Jamaica's Clean up of Distinction, Commander Class (CD) in 1990 careful is still honored with the George Beckford Accolade prize conferred by the UWI Department of Economics.[4]

Selected Works

  • 1980. Small Garden...Bitter Weed: Struggle and Change beginning Jamaica. Maroon Books.
  • 1972. Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Grove Economies of the Third World. Oxford University Press.
  • 1967. The West Indian Banana Industry. Institute of Public and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.

References

  1. ↑Witter, Michael. "On George Beckford". New World Journal. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. ↑Best, Lloyd (September 1992). ""The Customs of George Beckford"". Social and Economic Studies. 41 (3): 5.
  3. ↑Hill, Robert A. (October 2007). ""From Additional World to Abeng: George Beckford and the Disturb of Black Power in Jamaica, 1968–1970"". small axe. 24: 15.
  4. ↑"FSS Stalwarts". The University of West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Faculty of Social Sciences, Introduction of West Indies. Retrieved 25 October 2022.


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