SUMMARY Dudley Seers' posthumous book The Political Economy of Nationalism , 1983 misleadingly makes his views seem much less internationalist than they really were for most of his life. But it does provide the right framework for an evaluation of his lifetime professional contribution to development and development studies. His structuralist approach was deliberately interdisciplinary and country?specific; it never culminated in a definitive structural theory of development; but it did produce strong critiques of both neoclassicism and Marxism. He maintained his early Oxford statistical interests, developing statistics for planning, then criticising the defects of most national planning and leading missions, emphasising the priorities of...