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Fifty Key Thinkers on Development

By David Simon

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
0415337895, 9780415337892, 9780203098820, 0415337909
LCC
HD87.55 .F53 2006
Open Library ID
OL3399017M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1306543 bytes)
Series
Routledge key guides
Pages
321\321
Library
avaxhome.ws
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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: DT Modernizers like Hirshman, Kindleberger and Rostow DT Dependencies such as Frank, Cardoso and Amin DT Progressives like Prebisch, Helleiner and Streeten DT Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah and Nyerere DT Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi and Ariyaratne DT 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.

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