The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith (Development Essentials) - Hardcover

Rist, Gilbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842771809 ISBN 13: 9781842771808

Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 2002

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'If you want to understand the ideological forces that have shaped North-South relations for half a century, you need this remarkable book.' Susan George 'At a time when globalization and humanitarian interventions are taking over from development, this book should help us understand why development has led so many well-intentioned people astray?. It presents complex debates with great clarity, provides an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the literature and should prove essential reading for students and others interested, or involved, in development.' Marie-Dominique Perrot, IUED 'There is no comparable book available in English.' Professor Martin O'Connor, economist 'Compelling and exciting reading?. Rist's book, written with deliciously mild irony, is an account of the most crucial moments in which the rites of a belief embraced by millions were elaborated and canonized.' Olga Nieuwenhuys, European Journal of Development Research 'A much needed corrective to the work of the cheerleaders of the newly globalized order?. This book does an outstanding job.' Jan Knippers Black, Journal of Developing Areas 'An excellent and challenging book?. It should be required reading for all interested in development, and particularly the economists among them.' Peter de Valk, International Journal of African Historical Studies 'This book is one of the most astute of its genre available today?. [It] is exact in its scholarship and profound in its clear account of the philosophies and consequences of the Western example.' Rapport

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For years we have believed in development. Indeed, with all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates. Now this era is over. Globalisation has taken over. Former development promises have been shelved and replaced by a new but narrower slogan, 'the struggle against poverty'. Yet in spite of the failures of development, aggravated now by globalisation, we are told that growth -- which nobody would risk abandoning -- is still the only means of salvation. It is clear that the need for belief is stronger than any doubts about its actual wisdom. What, then, are the origins of this naive faith? Why have people put so much energy into proclaiming it and seeking to make it a reality? Why has it proved an illusion, and what future does it now have? These are some of the questions which this thoughtful and penetrating history of the concept of development explores. This book is an invitation to rethink contemporary problems and to prepare ourselves for what might be called the post-development era.

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• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1842771809
• ISBN 13: 9781842771808
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304