Theories of Development, Second Edition Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives

by Peet, Richard; Hartwick, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9781606230657
• ISBN10: 1606230654
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-24
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Widely adopted, this unique text critically evaluates the leading theories of international economic development, from classical economic and sociological models to Marxist, poststructuralist, and feminist perspectives. No other book provides such comprehensive coverage or links the theories as incisively to contemporary world events and policy debates. Reexamining neoliberal conceptions of economic growth, the authors show what a more just and democratic form of development might look like today. New to This Edition: Revised to reflect evolving global economic realities Updated with the latest concepts and empirical data Additional chapter on classical and neoclassical economics Increased coverage of real-world policy issues Now more accessible to undergraduates.

Author Biography

Richard Peet is Professor of Geography at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was a founding member of the "radical geography movement" and a long-time editor of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. His interests include development, global policy regimes, power, theory and philosophy, political ecology, and the causes of financial crises. The author of numerous articles, book reviews, and books, Dr. Peet is editor of a new radical journal, Human Geography.

 

Elaine Hartwick is Associate Professor of Geography at Framingham State College in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in political, cultural, and regional geography and global development. She has published on a variety of topics, including commodity chains, consumer politics, social theory, and development geography, with a regional specialization in Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

Development	p. 1
The Geography of Development	p. 4
Measuring Growth and Development	p. 6
Criticisms of Development Measures	p. 10
The Face of Poverty	p. 12
Contentions over Development	p. 13
Conventional Theories of Development	p. 21
Classical and Neoclassical Economics	p. 23
Enlightenment Origins of Political Economy	p. 24
The British Enlightenment	p. 26
The Classical Economists	p. 29
Adam Smith: Beginnings	p. 30
Utilitarianism	p. 33
Ricardian Calculations	p. 35
Mill's Ethical Economics	p. 37
List's Skepticism	p. 40
Critique of Classical Economics	p. 41
Neoclassical Economics	p. 45
Critique of Neoclassical Economics	p. 48
From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism	p. 53
Dynamic Analysis	p. 53
Keynesian Economics	p. 56
Keynesianism and Social Democracy	p. 57
The Developmental State	p. 63
Structuralism and Import Substitution	p. 64
Development Economics: Balanced and Unbalanced Growth	p. 68
The Counterrevolution in Development Economics	p. 74
Crisis in Keynesian Economics	p. 76
Neoliberalism	p. 78
Neoliberalism in Economic Policy	p. 84
World Bank Policy	p. 87
Benevolent Consensus	p. 91
Millennium Development Goals	p. 94
Debt Relief	p. 97
Critique of Neoliberal Development	p. 98
Development as Modernization	p. 103
Naturalism	p. 104
Rationalism	p. 107
Civilized Development	p. 110
Structural Functionalism	p. 113
The Parsonian Synthesis	p. 116
Critique of Structural Functionalism	p. 119
Sociological Modernization Theory	p. 121
Economic Modernization Theory	p. 123
Psychocultural Theories of Modernization	p. 124
Historical Stages of Growth	p. 126
Modernization Surfaces	p. 129
Critique of the Modernization Approach	p. 131
Return of Modernization	p. 134
Critique of Sachs	p. 137
Critique of Modernization	p. 139
Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development	p. 141
Marxism, Socialism, and Development	p. 143
Idealism and Materialism	p. 143
Dialectics	p. 146
Production as the Transformation of Nature	p. 147
Production as Social Relations	p. 148
Capital	p. 149
Mode of Production	p. 154
Development as Social Transformation	p. 156
Structural Marxism	p. 159
Imperialism	p. 161
Dependency Theory	p. 166
World Systems Theory	p. 172
Regulation Theory	p. 175
Criticisms of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories	p. 181
Socialist Development in the USSR	p. 186
Cuba	p. 189
Venezuela	p. 192
Conclusion: Development in Contention	p. 195
Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism	p. 197
The Enlightenment and Its Critics	p. 199
Post-Enlightenment Criticisms	p. 202
Power-Truth-Knowledge	p. 204
Postcolonialism	p. 208
Intellectual Dependency Theory	p. 212
Rethinking Development	p. 214
The Poststructural Turn in Development Studies	p. 218
Encountering Development	p. 221
Postdevelopmentalism	p. 227
Conclusion: Countercritique	p. 230
Feminist Theories of Development	p. 240
Feminist Epistemology	p. 243
Feminist Criticisms of Development Theory	p. 250
Women, Development, Theory	p. 252
Women in Development	p. 254
Women and Development	p. 259
Gender and Development	p. 267
Women, Environment, and Development	p. 269
Postmodernism and Development	p. 271
Critique: A Failure of Nerve?	p. 272
Critical Modernism	p. 275
Critical Modernism and Democratic Development	p. 277
Alternatives	p. 278
Critical Modernism	p. 280
Democratic Development	p. 282
Ethics	p. 285
Social Movements	p. 286
Linkages	p. 287
Radical Democracy	p. 288
References	p. 292
Index	p. 314
About the Authors	p. 324
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