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George L. Beckford
1934-1990·2,630 citations
George L. Beckford was a Jamaican economist and professor at the University of the West Indies, Mona, known for his pioneering work on the 'plantation economy' model. He is most famous for his 1972 book 'Persistent Poverty', which analyzed how the structural legacy of colonial plantations continues to hinder economic and social development in the Caribbean and the wider Global South.
Works
137 works
| Title | Year | Language | Citations▼ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persistent poverty: Underdevelopment in plantation economies of the third world | 1999 | en | 1,891 |
| Small garden--bitter weed: the political economy of struggle and change in Jamaica | 1982 | en | 151 |
| Tropical agribusiness structures and adjustments-bananas. | 1968 | en | 63 |
| Caribbean economy: Dependence and backwardness | 1975 | en | 45 |
| Small garden, bitter weed | 1980 | en | 43 |
| Caribbean peasantry in the confines of the plantation mode of production | 1985 | en | 35 |
| Caribbean rural economy | 1975 | en | 28 |
| Toward an appropriate theoretical framework for agricultural development planning and policy | 1968 | en | 27 |
| Induced innovation model of agricultural development: comment | 1984 | — | 27 |
| The social economy of bauxite in the Jamaican man-space | 1987 | — | 22 |
| The George Beckford Papers | 2000 | en | 22 |
| Part II: Aspects of the present conflict between the plantation and the peasantry in the West Indies | 1972 | — | 21 |
| Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in | 1972 | en | 20 |
| Comparative rural systems, development and underdevelopment | 1974 | — | 19 |
| The struggle for a relevant economics | 1984 | — | 18 |
| Institutional foundations of resource underdevelopment in the Caribbean | 1972 | — | 16 |
| Strategies for agricultural development: comment | 1972 | — | 14 |
| 1972Persistent Poverty | — | en | 13 |
| Development in Suspense | 1989 | — | 12 |
| The dynamics of growth and the nature of metropolitan plantation enterprise | 1970 | — | 12 |
| Agriculture and economic development | 1965 | — | 11 |
| Secular Fluctuations in the Growth of Tropical Agricultural Trade | 1964 | en | 10 |
| Plantation capitalism and black dispossession | 2000 | — | 10 |
| Issues in the Windwards–Jamaica Banana War | 1971 | — | 9 |
| The growth of major tropical export-crop industries | 1964 | en | 9 |
| The West Indian banana industry. | 1967 | en | 8 |
| The future of plantation society in comparative perspective | 2000 | — | 8 |
| Plantations, Peasants, and Proletariat in the West Indies | 1974 | en | 7 |
| The Beckford Papers | 2000 | en | 7 |
| Small Garden… Bitter Weed. The Political Struggle and Change in Jamaica | 1982 | en | 7 |
| Transforming Traditional Agriculture: Comment | 1966 | — | 7 |
| The Plantation System and the Penetration of International Capitalism | 1978 | — | 6 |
| The Caribbean in the Context of the Global Crisis | 1989 | — | 6 |
| Land reform for the betterment of Caribbean peoples | 1972 | — | 6 |
| Development in Suspense | 1989 | en | 6 |
| Social costs of plantation: Resource misallocation in plantation economy | 1972 | — | 5 |
| Pathways to Progress: The Peoples Socialist Plan | 1985 | en | 5 |
| The West Indian Banana Industry: The Scope for Rationalization and Regional Collaboration | 1967 | en | 5 |
| Infra-Caribbean agricultural trade. | 1967 | — | 5 |
| An Assessment of the CARICOM Integration Experience | 1989 | — | 5 |
| SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE AND POLITICAL CONTINUITY IN THE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN. | 1980 | en | 5 |
| Agricultural development in'traditional'and'peasant'economies: a review article | 1966 | en | 4 |
| Pathways to Progress: The People's Plan for Socialist Transformation, Jamaica, 1977-78 | 1985 | en | 4 |
| Tropical Agribusiness | 1968 | en | 4 |
| Análisis económico de la utilización y desarrollo de los recursos agrícolas en las economías de plantación | 1969 | entr. | 4 |
| Plantations, peasants, and proletariat in the West Indies: An essay on agrarian capitalism and alienation | 1978 | en | 4 |
| Development in Suspense: Selected Papers and Proceedings of the First Conference of Caribbean Economists | 1989 | en | 4 |
| Caribbean Economy | 1975 | en | 3 |
| Plantation Capitalism, Underdevelopment, and Transformation: With Special Reference to the Caribbean | 1989 | — | 3 |
| Pathways to Progress: The People's Plan for Socialist Transformation Jamaica, Volume | 1980 | en | 3 |