History of Development Thought: A Critical Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780415529648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 322 str.

R. Srivatsan

Opis

R. Srivatsan is Senior Fellow at Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. This book is the oucome of research conducted as part of the development initiative at the Centre. It revisits the major strands in the development debate from the 1950s to the early 21st century. This anthology with critical introduction and rigorous prefatory remarks for each extract will be invaluable to students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, especially development studies, history, politics and economics.

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Foreword .  Acknowledgements .  Introduction  Part 1: Early Thinkers  1. W.A. Lewis and the Dual Economy Model  2. P.C. Mahalanobis and Indian Planning: Excerpt from Studies Relating to Planning for National Development  Part 2: Neo-Marxism and Latin America  3. Paul Baran and the Concept of Backwardness  4. Andre Gunder-Frank and the Concept of Underdevelopment: Excerpt from On Development and Underdevelopment  5. Ernesto Laclau and the Critique of Underdevelopment: Excerpt from Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America  Part 3: Mode of Production in India  6. Utsa Patnaik and the Mode of Production in Agriculture: Excerpt from Capitalist Development in Agriculture: Further Comment  7. Hamza Alavi and the Colonial Mode of Production: Excerpt from India and the Colonial Mode of Production  8. Ashok Rudra and the Excluded Middle Peasant: Excerpt from Class Relations in Indian Agriculture  Part 4: Feminist Perspectives on Development  9. Ester Boserup and Women in Development: Excerpt from the Casual Worker  10. Marie Mies and the Woman as Housewife: Excerpt from Houswifization International: Women and the New International Division of Labour  11. Nirmala Banerjee and the Concept of Unorganized Labour: Excerpt from The Character of the Unorganized Sector  12. Mary E. John and the Changing Constitutive Contexts of Development: Excerpt from Gender and Development In India, 1970s-1990s  Part 5: The Debate on the Indian Developmental State in the 1980s  13. Pranab Bardhan and the Autonomous State: Excerpt from the State as an Autonomous Actor  14. Sukhamoy Chakravarty and Development Planning: Excerpt from Indian Planning: Basic Features and Analytics  15. Partha Chatterjee and the National State: Excerpt from The National State  Part 6: International Development Thinking in the 1980s  16. A.O. Hirschman and the End of Development Economics: Excerpt from a Simple Classification of Developmental Theories  17. Samuel Huntingdon and the Multiplication of Development Goals: Excerpt from the Goals of Development  18. Amartya Sen and the Concept of Capability: Excerpt from Capabilities and Partial Orderings  Part 7: Critical Development Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century  19. James Ferguson and the Anthropology of Development: Excerpt from the "Development" Industry in Lesotho  20. Immanuel Wallerstein’s World System Perspective: Excerpt from Development: Lodestar or Illusion?  21. Ben Fine and the New Development Agenda: Excerpt from the Washington Consensus: From Modernisation to Neo-Liberalism  22. Ashis Nandy and the Violence of Development: Excerpt from Development and Violence.  Bibliography.  About the Editor.  Index

O autorze

R. Srivatsan is Senior Fellow at Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.