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The History of Development; From Western Origins to Global Faith


Edition: Updated
Author(s): Gilbert Rist
ISBN10:  1842771809
ISBN13:  9781842771808
Format:  Trade Book
Pub. Date:  1/18/2003
Publisher(s): Zed Books

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
With all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates.
Preface to the Second Edition vii
Introduction 1(7)
Definitions of Development
8(17)
Conventional Thinking
A Methodological Word of Caution
Elements of a Definition
A Scandalous Definition?
`Development' as an Element in the Religion of Modernity
Metamorphoses of a Western Myth
25(22)
What the Metaphor Implies
Landmarks in the Western View of History
Conclusion
The Making of a World System
47(22)
Colonization
The League of Nations and the Mandate System
Conclusion
The Invention of Development
69(11)
President Truman's Point Four
A New World-view: `Underdevelopment'
US Hegemony
A New Paradigm
The `Development' Age
The International Doctrine and Institutions Take Root
80(13)
The Bandung Conference
The New International `Development' Agencies
Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy
93(16)
A Philosophy of History: Rostow's Stages of Economic Growth
Anti-communism or Marxism without Marx?
Dissident Voices
The Periphery and the Understanding of History
109(14)
Neo-Marxism in the United States
The Latin American Dependentistas
A New Paradigm, but Age-old Presuppositions
Self-Reliance: The Communal Past as a Model for the Future
123(17)
Ujamaa and the Tanzanian Experience
The Principles of Self-Reliance
Possible Futures for Self-Reliance
The Triumph of Third-Worldism
140(31)
The New International Economic Order
An Original Voice: The 1975 Dag Hammarskjold Foundation Report on Another Development
In the Wake of the NIEO: Further Proposals
The `Basic Needs' Approach
Conclusion
The Environment, or the New Nature of `Development'
171(26)
The Return to Classical Economics Plus a Few Humanitarian Extras
`Sustainable Development' or Growth Everlasting?
The Earth Summit
Reflections on Deliberate Ambiguity
A Mixture of Realism and Fine Sentiments
197(14)
The South Commission
The UNDP and `Human Development'
The Postmodern Illusion: Globalization as Simulacrum of `Development'
211(27)
On the Usefulness of Talking at Cross-purposes
Organizations on Reprieve or in Mutation?
Globalization, or Back to Normal
Virtual Reality as a Refuge for Continuing Belief
Beyond `Development'
Some Thoughts on What is to be Done
238(11)
The Struggle against Poverty: Slogan and Alibi
249(10)
Appendix I: President Truman's Point Four Message 259(2)
Appendix II: Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order 261(5)
Bibliography 266(9)
Index 275
Gilbert Rist is a leading Swiss scholar of development and Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED) in Geneva.

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