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A journey through the past, wrote Gerschenkron, citing Bertrand Russell, destroys the ‘dogmatism of the untraveled’ (Gerschenkron, 1962, pp. 27–27) by allowing a wider perspective on the challenges of economic development. In his comparative analysis, he went on to examine Russia’s experience against those of England, France, Germany and other European countries, only to qualify the usefulness of those experiences in the light of new and momentous problems that his country was facing in the early 1960s. The peculiarities, he said, of each economy uniquely constrain economic development. This chapter takes a different approach in treating initial conditions that have become much the same due to conventions that blanket the South. The AW is no exception. Peculiarities have faded in relevance. It would be liberating to once again discover the peculiarities that constrain economic development but, as this chapter will discuss, that will not be possible for many countries until the constraints that we have artificially imposed on ourselves through convention are wiped away.
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Ferguson, S. (2016). Diagnosing Constraints to Industrialisation in the Arab World: A Predatory Perspective. In: Kadri, A. (eds) Development Challenges and Solutions after the Arab Spring. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541406_7
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