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Fifty Key Thinkers on Development (Routledge Key Guides)
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Product Description
This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of fifty of the world's leading development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum, including Hirshman, Frank, Prebisch, Mao, Gandhi and Blaikie.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #93403 in Books
- Published on: 2005-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Fifty Key Thinkers on Development is the essential guide to the world’s most influential development thinkers. It presents a unique guide to the lives and ideas of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies from both North and South. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of fifty leading development thinkers from around the world. These include:
Modernisers like Hirshman, Kindleberger and Rostow
Dependencistas such as Frank, Cardoso and Amin
Progressives like Prebisch, Helleiner and Streeten
Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah and Nyerere
Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi and Ariyaratne
Development-environment thinkers like Blaikie, Brookfield and Shiva
This invaluable reference is a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum.
About the Author
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography and Director of the Centre for Developing Areas Research at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the co-editor of The Peri-Urban Interface: Approaches to sustainable natural and human resource use (Earthscan, 2005).
