Abstract

Historical-theoretical construction of the economic development process. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.3, pp.458-469. ISSN 1315-9518.

This article responds to the need to know and analyze the different perspectives from which the historical-theoretical trajectory of the economic development process has been defined and constructed and its direction toward the configuration of local economic development. The unknowns of economic development are set forth incorporating the focus of Adam Smith, David Ricardo; economic development according to the Marxist, neoclassical perspectives as well as those of Marshall, Meade, the historical focus and Keynes, as well as economic development according to Latin American approaches and the theories of endogenous growth (Romer, Lucas y Barro). Conclusions are that the concept of development has undergone notable changes throughout economic history, from an explicative beginning associated with strict economic conditions to the current situation, colored by a theoretical discussion that approaches ethics, human, territorial, technological, environmental themes, while it expands economic frontiers and opens them to share the generation of ideas and proposals for explaining with other sciences and disciplines.

Keywords : History; theory; process; economic development.