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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Growth versus Development
- The Geography of Development
- Measuring Growth and Development
- Alternative Benchmarks
- Criticisms of Development Measures
- The Faces 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
- Godwin and Malthus
- Utilitarianism
- Ricardian Calculations
- Mill’s Ethical Economics
- List’s Skepticism
- Critique of Classical Economics
- Ricardo Was Wrong
- Neoclassical Economics
- Critique of Neoclassical Economics
- CHAPTER 3. From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism
- Dynamic Analysis
- Keynesian Economics
- Keynesian Monetary and Fiscal Policy
- Keynesian Social Democracy
- Keynesian Growth Theory
- New Growth Theory
- The Developmental State
- Structuralism and Import–Substitution
- Development Economics: Balanced Growth
- 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
- A 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 Modernization
- Modernization Surfaces
- Critique of the Modernization Approach
- The Return of Modernization
- The Eternal Return of Jeffrey Sachs
- 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
- Mode of Production
- Development as Social Transformation
- Structural Marxism
- Imperialism
- Dependency Theory
- World–Systems Theory
- Regulation Theory
- Criticisms of Marxist and Neo–Marxist Theories
- The Marxist Reply
- Socialist Development in the USSR
- Cuba
- Venezuela
- Conclusion: Development in Contention
- CHAPTER 6. Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentism
- 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, and 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
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