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
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