Key Thinkers on Development
Preview
Book Description
Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series without the numerical constraint includes an additional 24 essays, filling in many gaps in the original selection, greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory, policy and practice.
It presents a unique guide to the lives, ideas and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory, policy and practice across time, space, disciplines and communities of practice. Accordingly, it challenges Western-centrism, Orientalism and the like, while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of "development" in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds, regional settings and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include:
- Modernisers like Kindleberger, Perroux and Rostow
- Dependencistas such as Frank, Furtado, Cardoso and Amin
- Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman, Prebisch, Helleiner Sen, Streeten and Wang
- Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah and Nyerere
- Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi, Ariyaratne and Vivekananda
- Development–environment thinkers like Agarwal, Blaikie, Brookfield, Ostrom and Sachs
- International institution builders like Singer, Hammarsköld, Kaul and Ul Haq
- Anti- and post-development thinkers and activists like Escobar, Ghosh, Quijano and Roy
Key Thinkers on Development is therefore the essential handbook on the world’s most influential development thinkers and an invaluable guide for students of development and sustainability, policy-makers and practitioners seeking an accessible overview of this diverse field and its leading voices.
Table of Contents
Adebayo Adedeji (1930–2018) Reginald Cline-Cole with David Simon
Irma Adelman (1930–2017) David Zilberman
Anil Agarwal (1947–2002) Tim Forsyth
Elmar Altvater (1938–2018) Henning Melber
Samir Amin (1931–2018) M.A. Mohamed Salih
Alice Amsden (1943–2012) Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
A.T. Ariyaratne (1931–) Lakshman Yapa
Jagdish Bhagwati (1934–) V.N. Balasubramanyam
Piers Blaikie (1942–) Jonathan Rigg
James M. (Jim) Blaut (1927–2000) Ben Wisner
Norman Borlaug (1914–2009) Katie Willis
Ester Boserup (1910–1999) Vandana Desai
Harold Brookfield (1926–) John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931–) Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez with David Simon
Michael Cernea (1934–) Anthony Bebbington
Robert Chambers (1932–) Michael Parnwell with David Simon
Hollis B. Chenery (1918–1994) Juha I. Uitto
Diane Elson (1946–) Sylvia Chant and Jordana Ramalho
Arturo Escobar (1952–) Aram Ziai
Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) Michael J. Watts
Fei Xiaotong (1919–2005) Huang Ping, Joshua Muldavin and Xiaojing Lynette Shi
Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005) Michael J. Watts
Paolo Freire (1921–1997) Anders Närman with David Simon
John Friedmann (1926–2017) Gary Gaile with David Simon
Celso Furtado (1920–2004) Roberto Saturnino Braga
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869–1948) Rana P.B. Singh
Susan George (1934–) Cathy Mcilwaine
Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978) Robert Gwynne with David Simon
Jayati Ghosh (1955–) Sucharita Sen
Eduardo Gudynas (1960–) Ronaldo Munck
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Henning Melber
Gerald K. Helleiner (1936–) Christopher Cramer
Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012) John Brohman with David Simon
Philippe Hugon (1939–2018) Jean-Jacques Gabas
Richard Jolly (1934–) Jo Beall
Naila Kabeer (1950–) Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Michał Kalecki (1899–1970) Jan Toporowski
Inge Kaul (1944–) Henning Melber
Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914–1999) David Lewis
Charles Poor Kindleberger (1910–2003) Jan Toporowski
Sir William Arthur Lewis (1915–1991) Morris Szeftel
Michael Lipton (1937–) John Harriss
Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) W.T.S. (Bill) Gould
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Ton Van Naerssen
Karl Marx (1818–1883) Richard Peet
Manfred Max-Neef (1932–) Rita Abrahamsen
Terence Gary McGee (1936–) John P. Lea
Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) Sarah Radcliffe
Kwame Francis Nkrumah (1909–1972) Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams
Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1957) Rainer Kattel
Julius Kambaragwe Nyerere (1922–1999) Dani W. Nabudere with David Simon
Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012) Tim Forsyth and Craig Johnson
François Perroux (1903–1987) Jean-Jacques Gabas
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) Morris Szeftel
Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) Cristóbal Kay
Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) Philipp Horn
Joan Robinson (1903–1983) Pervez Tahir
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) James Sidaway
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan (1902–1985) Jagdish Bhagwati and Richard Eckaus
Walt Whitman Rostow (1916–2003) Ulrich Menzel
Aruna Roy (1946–) John Harriss
Ignacy Sachs (1927–) Krystyna Vinaver and Marlène Monteiro
E.F. (Fritz) Schumacher (1911–1977) Tony Binns
Dudley Seers (1920–1983) Arturo Escobar
Amartya Kumar Sen (1933–) Stuart Corbridge
Hans Wolfgang Singer (1910–2006) John Shaw with David Simon
Frances Stewart (1940–) Nandini Gooptu and Amogh Dhar Sharma
Joseph Stiglitz (1943–) Ben Fine
Paul Patrick Streeten (1917–2019) Francis Wilson
James Tobin (1918–2002) David Simon
Mahbub Ul Haq (1934–1998) Marcus Power
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Rana P.B. Singh
Wang Hui (1959–) Joshua Muldavin and Kong Yuan
Eric R. Wolf (1923–1999) Reinhart Kößler and Tilman Schiel
Peter Worsley (1924–2013) Ronaldo Munck
Editor(s)
Biography
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is author, editor and co-editor of many books and journal special issues on cities, development–environment challenges and climate change adaptation, most recently Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, Green and Fair (2016), Urban Planet (2018) and Holocaust Escapees and Global Development: Hidden Histories (2019).
Reviews
"David Simon has done a masterful job of collecting a diverse group of idea men and women, practitioners, politicians and spiritual leaders from all continents to enrich the still-evolving field of development studies. It is a ready reference to the intellectual development of the past as well as the main currents in the contemporary world. The student, the teacher and discerning readers will all enjoy this must-read."
-Dr Nadia Tahir, The News on Sunday