The History of Development From Western Origins to Global Faith

by Rist, Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9781848131897
• ISBN10: 1848131895
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This is the third edition of a classic development text, which has both defined and changed its field.

Author Biography

Gilbert Rist is a Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED) in Geneva.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	p. viii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Definitions of Development	p. 8
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	p. 25
What the Metaphor Implies
Landmarks in the Western View of History
Conclusion
The Making of a World System	p. 47
Colonization
The League of Nations and the Mandate System
Conclusion
The Invention of Development	p. 69
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	p. 80
The Bandung Conference
The New International 'Development' Agencies
Modernization Poised between History and Prophecy	p. 93
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	p. 109
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	p. 123
Ujamaa and the Tanzanian Experience
The Principles of Self-reliance
Possible Futures for Self-reliance
The Triumph of Third-Worldism	p. 140
The New International Economic Order
An Original Voice: The 1975 Dag Hammarskjöld 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'	p. 171
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	p. 197
The South Commission
The UNDP and 'Human Development'
Globalization as Simulacrum of 'Development'	p. 211
On the Usefulness of Talking at Cross-purposes
Globalization, The Last Hope of Achieving 'Development'?
Virtual Reality as a Refuge for Continuing Belief
From the Struggle against Poverty to the Millennium Development Goals	p. 226
Just What Is the Problem?
Who Are the Poor?
Intervention on All Fronts
The Millennium Goals: 'Development' in Shreds
'Development Aid': Massaging the Figures
Conclusion
Beyond 'Development': From Downscaling to a change in the Economic Paradigm	p. 240
Objectors to Growth and 'Development Loyalists'
Economic 'Science': An Obsolete Paradigm
Conclusion
Conclusion	p. 254
The Facts
'Post-development'
Exhaustion of the Economic Paradigm: Believing or Knowing?
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 277
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