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The history of development : from Western origins to global faith / Gilbert Rist ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
LIBRA HD78 .R5713 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rist, Gilbert, 1938- author.
- Series:
- Development essentials
- Standardized Title:
- Développement. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--History.
- Economic development.
- History.
- Economic assistance--History.
- Economic assistance.
- Sustainable development--History.
- Sustainable development.
- Development economics.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 304 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books Ltd, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 Definitions of Development p. 8
- Conventional Thinking
- A Methodological Word of Caution
- Elements of a Definition
- A Scandalous Definition?
- 'Development' as an Element in the Religion of Modernity
- 2 Metamorphoses of a Western Myth p. 25
- What The Metaphor Implies
- Landmarks in the Western View of History
- 3 The Making of a World System p. 47
- Colonization
- The League of Nations and the Mandate System
- 4 The Invention of Development p. 69
- President Truman's Point Four
- A New World-view: 'Underdevelopment'
- US Hegemony
- A New Paradigm
- The 'Development' Age
- 5 The International Doctrine and Institutions Take Root p. 80
- The Bandung Conference
- The New International 'Development' Agencies
- 6 Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy p. 93
- A Philosophy of History: Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth
- Anti-communism or Marxism without Marx?
- Dissident Voices
- 7 The Periphery and the Understanding of History p. 109
- Neo-Marxism in the United States
- The Latin American Dependentistas
- A New Paradigm, but Age-old Presuppositions
- 8 Self-reliance: The Communal Past as a Model for the Future p. 123
- Ujamaa and the Tanzanian Experience
- The Principles of Self-reliance
- Possible Futures for Self-reliance
- 9 The Triumph of Third-Worldism p. 140
- The New International Economic Order
- An Original Voice: The 1975 Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Report on Another Development
- In The Wake of the NIEO: Further Proposals
- The 'Basic Needs' Approach
- 10 The Environment, or the New Nature of 'Development' p. 171
- The Return to Classical Economics Plus a Few Humanitarian Extras
- 'Sustainable Development' or Growth Everlasting?
- The Earth Summit
- Reflections on Deliberate Ambiguity
- 11 A Mixture of Realism and Fine Sentiments p. 197
- The South Commission
- The UNDP and 'Human Development'
- 12 Globalization as Simulacrum of 'Development' p. 211
- On the Usefulness of Talking at Cross-purposes
- Globalization, the Last Hope of Achieving 'Development'?
- Virtual Reality as a Refuge for Continuing Belief
- 13 From the Struggle against Poverty to the Millennium Development Goals p. 226
- Just What Is the Problem?
- Who Are the Poor?
- Intervention on All Fronts
- The Millennium Goals: 'Development' in Shreds
- 'Development Aid': Massaging the Figures
- 14 The Great Turnaround? p. 240
- 'Development' Nowhere To Be Found
- Towards Other Models?
- Success in Reducing Poverty?
- Ecology as Victim of the Crisis
- 15 Beyond 'Development': From Downscaling to a Change in the Economic Paradigm p. 256
- Objectors to Growth and 'Development Loyalists'
- Economic 'Science': An Obsolete Paradigm.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1786997568
- 9781786997562
- 9781786997555
- 178699755X
- OCLC:
- 1065736423
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