Key Thinkers on Development

Fifty Key Thinkers on Development is a comprehensive biographical handbook that provides an accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. The second edition, published in 2014, includes 24 additional essays and improves the gender balance and diversifies coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory, policy, and practice. The book challenges Western-centrism and Orientalism and demonstrates the enduring appeal of development in different guises. It is an essential handbook for students, policy-makers, and practitioners seeking an overview of this diverse field and its leading voices.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 490 pages
Publication date: 18 April 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series without the numerical constraint includes an additional 24 essays, filling in many gaps in the original selection, greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory, policy, and practice. It presents a unique guide to the lives, ideas, and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory, policy, and practice across time, space, disciplines, and communities of practice. Accordingly, it challenges Western-centrism, Orientalism, and the like, while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of development in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds, regional settings, and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include: Modernisers like Kindleberger, Perroux, and Rostow Dependencistas such as Frank, Furtado, Cardoso, and Amin Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman, Prebisch, Helleiner Sen, Streeten, and Wang Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah, and Nyerere Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development.

Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series without the numerical constraint includes an additional 24 essays, filling in many gaps in the original selection, greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory, policy, and practice. It presents a unique guide to the lives, ideas, and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory, policy, and practice across time, space, disciplines, and communities of practice. Accordingly, it challenges Western-centrism, Orientalism, and the like, while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of development in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds, regional settings, and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include:

Modernisers like Kindleberger, Perroux, and Rostow

Dependencistas such as Frank, Furtado, Cardoso, and Amin

Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman, Prebisch, Helleiner Sen, Streeten, and Wang

Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah, and Nyerere

Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development.

Weight: 674g
Dimension: 139 x 215 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138494329
Edition number: 2 New edition