Oral history interview with Paul Streeten, 2001
Bibliographic record
Abstract
(b. 1917) Early years: involvement in socialist youth movement; interest in human development; Blue Pilgrims; student of economics at Aberdeen University and Cambridge; 1940 incarceration and interment camp in UK and Canada; Heinz Arndt in internment camp; enlistment in army; injury in Sicily; 1945 Ministry of Overseas Development; Career: lecturer and fellow at Oxford; author of The Political Element; professor emeritus at Boston University; editor of World Development; deputy director general of the Economic Planning Staff of the UK's Ministry of Overseas Development; acting director of the Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex; Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford; 1976-1980 and 1984-1985 senior adviser at World Bank; Themes: Austro-Marxism; collaboration with Gunnar Myrdal--first executive-secretary for the Economic Commission for Europe; cumulative causation; centralization of the World Bank; decentralization of the UN; impressions of Ava and Gunnar Myrdal and Michal Kalecki; intermediate regimes; foreign exchange gap; Indian Statistical Institute at Mahalonobis; fixed income distribution; internal politics at Ministry of Overseas Development; involvement in International Development Association (IDA) and Asian Development Bank; UNCTAD reports; development in India and Malta; "labor utilization" and "livelihoods"; third-world countries and basic needs (material and nonmaterial); calculations of economic growth; interdisciplinary problem-solving at UN; dissemination of ideas by UN; resurgence of neoclassical theory in development; gap between research and implementation at World Bank; human rights approach versus basic needs approach; structuralism and the World Bank; pessimism of UN, optimism of World Bank; UN intervention during human rights violations; international investment trust for recycling; necessity of international migration agency, international environmental agency, global taxing agency, and global central bank in UN; modernization of New International Economic Order (NIEO); fair compensation in global arena; bilateralism versus multilateralism; life expectancy projections; Human Development Index; cultural diversity and human rights; human sustainable development; poverty reduction and inequality; absolute and relative poverty; widening definitions of capital; import substitution and export promotion; free trade and protectionism; importance of teaching economic history; writing style and clarity of UN documents
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.380 | 0.163 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".