Four lectures • Second edition, revised and augmented

The notion of development is nowadays a fundamental concept for the global scene. It is related to quite unique and complex historical processes, linked today with the main peculiarities of the international marketplace. It also shows a coherent and aggressive system of ideas, and an impressive institutional apparatus that nowadays operates all around the world. Billions of U.S. dollars are invested everywhere with the assumed aim of increasing incomes and improving people’s social welfare.