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Lloyd Best
1934-2007·1,218 citations
Lloyd Best was a prominent Trinidadian economist, political theorist, and public intellectual who co-developed the 'plantation economy' model to explain the structural underdevelopment of Caribbean nations. He was a founding member of the New World Group and the Tapia House Movement, and he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago.
Works
49 works
| Title | Year | Language | Citations▼ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outlines of a model of pure plantation economy | 1968 | en | 513 |
| Essays on the theory of plantation economy: a historical and institutional approach to Caribbean economic development | 2009 | en | 163 |
| Character of Caribbean economy | 1975 | — | 139 |
| Independent thought and Caribbean freedom | 1971 | en | 110 |
| Race, class and ethnicity: A Caribbean interpretation | 2001 | — | 40 |
| A first appraisal of monetary management in Jamaica | 1961 | — | 21 |
| The Contribution of George Beckford | 1992 | — | 21 |
| Independent thought and Caribbean freedom: thirty years later | 1997 | — | 18 |
| Externally propelled industrialization and growth in the Caribbean | 1968 | en | 18 |
| A biography of labour | 1975 | — | 15 |
| Un modèle d'économie pure de plantation | 1971 | entr. | 14 |
| Outlines of a Model of Pure Plantation Economy (After twenty-five years) | 1998 | en | 11 |
| Independence and Responsibility: Self-knowledge as an Imperative | 1996 | — | 11 |
| Whither New World | 1967 | — | 10 |
| Transforming the plantation economy: Economic policy and management choices, Trinidad and Tobago (1950-2005) | 2012 | — | 10 |
| The Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical and Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic Development | 2009 | en | 10 |
| What now for Caribbean people and their leaders? Reflections on the current economic and social crisis: A gender perspective | 2009 | — | 9 |
| The choice of technology appropriate to Caribbean countries. | 1976 | — | 9 |
| Externally propelled growth in the Caribbean : selected essays | 1967 | en | 7 |
| Externally propelled growth and industrialization in the Caribbean | 1969 | en | 6 |
| Outline of a general theory of Caribbean economy | 2009 | — | 6 |
| Current development strategy and economic integration in the Caribbean | 1966 | — | 6 |
| West Indian society 150 years after abolition: A re-examination of some classic theories | 2022 | en | 6 |
| Essyas ot the theory of plantation economy | — | en | 6 |
| A Caribbean Life | 2010 | — | 4 |
| Pensamiento independiente y libertad caribeña | 2017 | entr. | 4 |
| Tapia | 1971 | — | 3 |
| Doctor Politics in the Caribbean | 1969 | — | 3 |
| The Vocation of a Caribbean Intellectual: An Interview with Lloyd Best by David Scott | 1997 | — | 3 |
| On the teaching of economics | 1973 | — | 3 |
| Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corporation Celebrating 10 Years of Success | 1992 | — | 3 |
| Caribbean Economy | 1975 | — | 3 |
| Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: A Historical and Institutional Approach to Caribbean Economic DevelopmentUniversity | 2009 | — | 3 |
| a model of Pure Plantation economy. In dennis Pantin | 2005 | en | 3 |
| Le mécanisme des économies de plantation | 1971 | — | 2 |
| A Party Politics for Trinidad and Tobago: The Flowering of an Idea | 1991 | — | 2 |
| Export-propelled Growth and Industrialization in the Caribbean | 1968 | — | 2 |
| Agricultural Development and Planning in the West Indies . Selected Papers from the Third West Indian Agricultural Economics Conference, Mona … | 1968 | — | 2 |
| Afterword.” In George Lamming (ed.), Enterprise of the Indies . Port of Spain: Trinidad and Tobago Institute of the Indies , 1999, 294–97 | — | — | 2 |
| N. Girvan (2009) Essays on the Theory of Plantation Economy: An Institutional and Historical Approach to Caribbean Economic Development | — | en | 2 |
| 8 West Indian Society 150 Years after Abolition: a Re-examination of Some Classic Theories | 2013 | en | 1 |
| The Economics of Development in Small Countries with Special Reference to the Caribbean . | 1969 | — | 1 |
| Agricultural Transformation in a Plantation Economy | 2022 | — | — |
| I. From the Caribbean Region | 2002 | — | — |
| Economic and Business Ideas in the West Indies at the Dawn of the 21st Century | 2000 | — | — |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A NEW STRATEGY | 1960 | — | — |
| COMMENT OF PROFESSOR PECK'S CRITIQUE | 1958 | — | — |
| Gonzalez-Tromp, Miriam Greenidge, Kevin | 2010 | — | — |
| Scientist as Well as Artist | 2002 | — | — |