Contents

Chapter 1 Development 

              The Geography of Development

              Measuring Growth and Development

              Criticisms of Development Measures

              The Face of Poverty

              Contentions over Development

     PART I CONVENTIONAL THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT 

Chapter 2 Classical and Neoclassical Economics 

              Enlightenment Origins of Political Economy

              The British Enlightenment

              The Classical Economists

              Adam Smith: Beginnings

              Utilitarianism

              Ricardian Calculations

              Mill''s Ethical Economics

              List''s Skepticism

              Critique of Classical Economics

              Neoclassical Economics

              Critique of Neoclassical Economics

Chapter 3 From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism 

              Dynamic Analysis

              Keynesian Economics

              Keynesianism and Social Democracy

              The Developmental State

              Structuralism and Import Substitution

              Development Economics: Balanced and Unbalanced Growth

              The Counterrevolution in Development Economics

              Crisis in Keynesian Economics

              Neoliberalism

              Neoliberalism in Economic Policy

              World Bank Policy

              Benevolent Consensus

              Millennium Development Goals

              Debt Relief
 
              Critique of Neoliberal Development

Chapter 4 Development as Modernization 

              Naturalism

              Rationalism

              Civilized Development

              Structural Functionalism

              The Parsonian Synthesis

              Critique of Structural Functionalism

              Sociological Modernization Theory

              Economic Modernization Theory

              Psychocultural Theories of Modernization

              Historical Stages of Growth

              Modernization Surfaces

              Critique of the Modernization Approach

              Return of Modernization

              Critique of Sachs

              Critique of Modernization
 
     PART II NONCONVENTIONAL, CRITICAL THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT 

Chapter 5 Marxism, Socialism, and Development 

               Idealism and Materialism

               Dialectics

               Production as the Transformation of Nature

               Production as Social Relations

               Capital

               Model of Production

               Development as Social Transformation

               Structural Marxism

               Imperialism

               Dependency Theory

               World Systems Theory

               Regulation Theory

               Criticisms of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories

               Socialist Development in the USSR

               Cuba

               Venezuela

               Conclusion: Development in Contention

Chapter 6 Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism

               The Enlightenment and Its Critics

               Post-Enlightenment Criticisms

               Power-Truth-Knowledge
 
               Postcolonialism
 
               Intellectual Dependency Theory

               Rethinking Development

               The Poststructural Turn in Development Studies

               Encountering Development

               Postdevelopmentalism

               Conclusion: Countercritique

Chapter 7 Feminist Theories of Development 

               Feminist Epistemology

               Feminist Criticisms of Development Theory

               Women, Development, Theory

               Women in Development

               Women and Development

               Gender and Development
 
               Women, Environment, and Development

               Postmodernism and Development

               Critique: A Failure of Nerve?

      PART III CRITICAL MODERNISM 

Chapter 8 Critical Modernism and Democratic Development 

               Alternatives

               Critical Modernism

               Democratic Development

               Ethics

               Social Movements

               Linkages

               Radical Democracy

               References 

Index

About the Authors