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The Development Reader Brings Together Fifty-four Key Readings On Development History, Theory And Policy: Adam Smith And Karl Marx Meet, Among Others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen And Jeffrey Sachs. It Shows How Debates Around Development Have Been Structured By Different Readings Of The Roles Played By Markets, Empire, Nature And Difference In The Organization Of World Affairs. For Example, Present-day Concerns About Economic Liberalization Echo Long-standing Debates Around Free-trade, Extended Divisions Of Labour And National Economic Policy. Likewise, Old Debates About Empire Are Re-appearing In Critical Perspectives On Us Policy In The Middle East. While There Is Little Room Today For Old-fashioned Environmental Or Cultural Determinism, The Attention Now Being Given To Climate Change And A Clash Of Civilisations Shows That Questions Of Nature And Difference Remain At The Centre Of Development Politics. Section And Individual Extract Introductions Guide Students Through The Material And Bind The Readings Into A Coherent Whole. Organized Chronologically As Well As Thematically, It Offers An Intellectual History Of The Debates And Political Struggles That Swirl Around Development. By Bringing Together Intellectual History And Contemporary Development Issues In This Way, The Development Reader Breaks Fresh Ground. It Will Have Broad Appeal Across The Humanities And Social Sciences, And Is Essential Reading For Students Of Contemporary Development Issues, Practitioners And Campaigners. 'the Geography Of Poverty And Wealth' / Jeffrey D. Sachs, Andrew D. Mellinger And John L. Gallup -- 'the Origins Of The Third World' / Mike Davis -- 'the Lay Of The Land' / Anne Mcclintock -- 'economic Development: A Semantic History' / Heinz Arndt -- 'of The Advantages Which Europe Has Derived From The Discovery Of America, And From That Of A Passage To The East Indies By The Cape Of Good Hope' / Adam Smith -- 'the British Rule In India' / Karl Marx -- 'the Organic Analogy Reconsidered' And 'societal Typologies' / Herbert Spencer -- 'civilisation' And 'what Is True Civilisation?' / M.k. Gandhi -- 'economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren' / John Maynard Keynes -- 'freedom In A Complex Society' / Karl Polanyi -- 'the Background Of Colonial Policy And Practice' / J.s. Furnivall -- 'the Impasse' / Alexander Gerschenkron -- 'this Is The Voice Of Algeria' / Frantz Fanon -- 'the Problematization Of Poverty: The Tale Of Three Worlds And Development' / Arturo Escobar --^ 'marxism, Communism And The Stages-at-growth' / W.w. Rostow -- 'population Policy And The Future' / Kingsley Davis -- 'economic Development With Unlimited Supplies Of Labour' / W.a. Lewis -- 'the Distribution Of Gains Between Investing And Borrowing Countries' / H.w. Singer -- 'socialism And The Soviet Experience' / Alec Nove -- 'man And Nature In China' / Rhoads Murphey -- 'the Steep Ascent' / Paul Baran -- 'capitalism And Cheap Labour-power In South Africa: From Segregation To Apartheid' / Harold Wolpe -- 'the Obligation To Endure' / Rachel Carson -- 'the Economics Of Polygamy' / Ester Boserup -- 'what Is Urban Bias, And Is It To Blame?' / Michael Lipton -- 'latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem And A Solution' / William Mangin -- 'foreign Aid, Forever?' / P.t. Bauer -- 'the Dirigiste Dogma' / Deepak Lal -- 'democracy And The Washington Consensus' / John Williamson -- 'seeing Like A State: Conclusion' / James C. Scott --^ 'the Irrelevance Of Development Studies' / Michael Edwards -- 'male Bias In The Development Process: An Overview' / Diane Elson -- 'the Anti-politics Machine: Development And Bureaucratic Power In Lesotho' / James Ferguson And Larry Lohmann -- 'goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?' / Dani Rodrik -- 'was Latin America Too Rich To Prosper?: Structural And Political Obstacles To Export-led Industrial Growth' / James E. Mahon, Jr. -- 'fiscal Reform And The Economic Foundations Of Local State Corporatism In China' / Jean C. Oi -- 'moving The State: The Politics Of Democratic Decentralization In Kerala, South Africa And Porto Alegre' / Patrick Heller -- 'conclusion: Linking The Urban And The Rural' / Mahmood Mamdani -- 'people's Knowledge, Participation And Patronage: Operations And Representations In Rural Development' / David Mosse -- 'the Market Crosses Borders' / Martin Wolf -- 'is Globalization Reducing Poverty And Inequality?' / Robert Hunter Wade --^ 'wealth And Well-being' / Partha Dasgupta -- 'more Than 100 Million Women Are Missing' / Amartya Sen -- 'conceptualising Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters' / Bina Agarwal -- 'aids, Gender, And Sexuality During Africa's Economic Crisis' / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- 'feminism, The Taliban, And Politics Of Counter-insurgency' / Charles Hirschkind And Saba Mahmood -- 'asia's Reemergence' / S. Radelet And J. Sachs -- 'on Missing The Boat: The Marginalization Of The Bottom Billion In The World Economy' / Paul Collier -- 'consent To Coercion' / David Harvey -- 'from The Specter Of Mao To The Spirit Of The Law: Labor Insurgency In China' / Ching Kwan Lee -- 'the Recurrent Crises Of The Gatekeeper State' / Frederick Cooper -- 'beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories' / Fernando Coronil -- 'globalization And Volence' / Arjun Appadurai -- 'on Development, Demography And Climate Change: The End Of The World As We Know It?' / Tim Dyson. Edited By Sharad Chari And Stuart Corbridge. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.