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The Development Reader (Paperback, New edition)
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The Development Reader (Paperback, New edition)
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The Development Reader brings together fifty-four key readings on
development history, theory and policy: Adam Smith and Karl Marx
meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs. It
shows how debates around development have been structured by
different readings of the roles played by markets, empire, nature
and difference in the organization of world affairs. For example,
present-day concerns about economic liberalization echo
long-standing debates around free-trade, extended divisions of
labour and national economic policy. Likewise, old debates about
empire are re-appearing in critical perspectives on US policy in
the Middle East. While there is little room today for old-fashioned
environmental or cultural determinism, the attention now being
given to climate change and a clash of civilisations shows that
questions of nature and difference remain at the centre of
development politics. Section and individual extract introductions
guide students through the material and bind the readings into a
coherent whole. Organized chronologically as well as thematically,
it offers an intellectual history of the debates and political
struggles that swirl around development. By bringing together
intellectual history and contemporary development issues in this
way, The Development Reader breaks fresh ground. It will have broad
appeal across the humanities and social sciences, and is essential
reading for students of contemporary development issues,
practitioners and campaigners.
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