Biography of george l beckford

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George Beckford (1934-1990) was a distinguished economist known internationally for his work in political economy.^[1] He is especially recognized for his contributions to the theory of Plantation Economy which holds that the racial and class hierarchies inherent in the plantation system put colonized places and people at a deep structural disadvantage that cannot be overcome through conventional "development" approaches.

Beckford was part of an intellectual movement of Caribbean scholars known as the New World Group, which also included his fellow economists Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt.^[2][3]He joined the faculty of the University of the West Indies at St.

Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1963 and subsequently moved to the university's Mona campus in Kingston, Jamaica, where he taught until his death in 1990. His most widely-refere