The Development Reader

Presents 54 readings on development history, theory and policy: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs. This book shows how debates around development have been structured by different readings of the roles played by markets, empire, nature and difference in the organization of world affairs.

By bringing together intellectual history and contemporary development issues in this way, "The Development Reader" breaks fresh ground. It will have broad appeal across the humanities and social sciences, and is essential reading for students of contemporary development issues, practitioners and campaigners.

Part I The Object of Development "The geography of poverty and wealth", by J.Sachs, A.Mellinger and J.Gallup, Late Victorian Holocausts, by M.Davis, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest, by A.McClintock Part II Markets, Empire, Nature, Difference "Economic development: a semantic history" by H.Arndt, The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, by A.Smith, "British Rule in India", by K.Marx , On Social Evolution: Selected Writings, by H. Spencer, Hind Swaraj by M.K.Gandhi Part III Reform, Revolution, Resistance "Economic possibilities for our grandchildren" by J.M.Keynes, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, by K.Polanyi Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India, by J.S.Furnivall, Bread and Democracy in Germany, by A. Gerschenkron, "This is the Voice of Algeria" By F.Fanon Part IV Promethean Visions Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World by A.Escobar, The Stages of Economic Growth by W.W.Rostow The Population of India and Pakistan, by K.Davis, "Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour", by W.A.Lewis, "The distribution of gains between investing and borrowing countries", by H.Singer, The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited by A. Nove, "Man and nature in China" by R.Murphey Part V Challenges to the Mainstream The Political Economy of Growth, by P.Baran "Capitalism and cheap labour power in South Africa: from segregation to apartheid" by H.Wolpe, Women's Role in Economic Development by E.Boserup, Silent Spring by R.Carson, Why Poor People Stay Poor: A Study of Urban Bias in World Development by M.Lipton "Latin American squatter settlements: a problem and a solution" by W.Mangin Part VI The Hubris of Development "Foreign aid forever?" by P.Bauer The Poverty of 'Development Economics' by D.Lal "Democracy and the 'Washington Consensus" by J.Williamson , Seeing Like a State by J.Scott, "The irrelevance of development studies", by M.Edwards, "Male bias in the development process: an overview" by D.Elson, "The anti-politics machine: 'development' and bureaucratic power in Lesotho" by J. Ferguson with L.Lohmann Part VII Institutions, Governance and Participation "Goodbye Washington Consensus, hello Washington confusion?" by D.Rodrik, "Was Latin America too rich to prosper? Structural and political obstacles to export-led economic growth" by J.Mahon, "Fiscal reform and the economic foundations of local state corporatism in China" by J.Oi "Moving the state: the politics of democratic decentralization in Kerala, South Africa and Porto Allegre" by P.Heller, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by M. Mamdani "People's knowledge', participation and patronage" by D.Mosse Part VIII Globalization, Security and Well-Being Why Globalization Works by M.Wolf "Is globalization reducing poverty and inequality?" by R.Wade Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by P.Dasgupta "More than 100 million women are missing" by A.K.Sen "Conceptualising environmental collective action: why gender matters" by B.Agarwal "AIDS, gender and sexuality during Africa's economic crisis" by B.Schoepf, "Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counter-Insurgency" by C. Hirschkind and S. Mahmood Part IX Development in the 21st Century "Asia's re-emergence" by S. Radelet and J. Sachs , "On missing the boat: the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy" by P.Collier, The New Imperialism by D.Harvey, "From the Spectre of Marx to the Spirit of the Law: Labor Insurgency in China" by C.K. Lee, "The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state" by F. Cooper "Beyond Occidentalism: toward non-imperial geohistorical categories" by F.Coronil, "Globalization and violence" by A.Appadurai "On development, demography and climate change: the end of the Third World as we know it?" by T.Dyson