00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862388118 Buklod 20210301184931.0 m | | ta 210301s1984 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00039402903 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-2371 Ferrer, Ricardo D. author. Society, politics, and economic development some exploratory notes Ricardo D. Ferrer. 1984. pages 1-38 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 38). This paper attempts to undertake a further discussion of the dynamics of social, political, and economic development. The author believes that there exist broad but well-specified theories of social, political, and economic development, one of which is Marxism which permits formulation of broad but empirically testable hypotheses. The paper presents some empirical hypotheses deducible from the Marxist theory of social change, which are subsequently tested using the same set of data used by Adelman and Morris (1967). Basically, the results demonstrates that the Marxist proposition about social change can be subjected to standard empirical tests, and provide empirical support to two fundamental Marxist propositions, namely that the rate of social and economic development increases upon attaining some thresholds in the development of capitalist forces in society and that imperialism, specified in some manner, is a significant factor in economic development. Economic development. Social change. Economics Research. The Philippine Review of Business and Economics Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 & 2 (March & June 1984), p. 1-38. (viewed 01 March 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-2371 Analytics