Key Thinkers on Development

Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series without the numerical constraint includes an additional 24 essays filling in many gaps in the original selection greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory policy and practice. It presents a unique guide to the lives ideas and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory policy and practice across time space disciplines and communities of practice. Accordingly it challenges Western-centrism Orientalism and the like while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of development in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds regional settings and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include: Modernisers like Kindleberger Perroux and Rostow Dependencistas such as Frank Furtado Cardoso and Amin Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman Prebisch Helleiner Sen Streeten and Wang Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development such as Mao Nkrumah and Nyerere Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development such as Gandhi Ariyaratne and Vivekananda Developmentâenvironment thinkers like Agarwal Blaikie Brookfield Ostrom and Sachs International institution builders like Singer HammarskÃld Kaul and Ul Haq Anti- and post-development thinkers and activists like Escobar Ghosh Quijano and Roy Key Thinkers on Development is therefore the essential handbook on the worldâs most influential development thinkers and an invaluable guide for students of development and sustainability policy-makers and practitioners seeking an accessible overview of this diverse field and its leading voices. . Language: English