Theories of development : contentions, arguments, alternatives /
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| Author / Creator: | Peet, Richard. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Guilford Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xii, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7640388 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Development
- The Geography of Development
- Measuring Growth and Development
- Criticisms of Development Measures
- The Face of Poverty
- Contentions over Development
- Part I. Conventional Theories of Development
- Chapter 2. Classical and Neoclassical Economics
- Enlightenment Origins of Political Economy
- The British Enlightenment
- The Classical Economists
- Adam Smith: Beginnings
- Utilitarianism
- Ricardian Calculations
- Mill's Ethical Economics
- List's Skepticism
- Critique of Classical Economics
- Neoclassical Economics
- Critique of Neoclassical Economics
- Chapter 3. From Keynesian Economics to Neoliberalism
- Dynamic Analysis
- Keynesian Economics
- Keynesianism and Social Democracy
- The Developmental State
- Structuralism and Import Substitution
- Development Economics: Balanced and Unbalanced Growth
- The Counterrevolution in Development Economics
- Crisis in Keynesian Economics
- Neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism in Economic Policy
- World Bank Policy
- Benevolent Consensus
- Millennium Development Goals
- Debt Relief
- Critique of Neoliberal Development
- Chapter 4. Development as Modernization
- Naturalism
- Rationalism
- Civilized Development
- Structural Functionalism
- The Parsonian Synthesis
- Critique of Structural Functionalism
- Sociological Modernization Theory
- Economic Modernization Theory
- Psychocultural Theories of Modernization
- Historical Stages of Growth
- Modernization Surfaces
- Critique of the Modernization Approach
- Return of Modernization
- Critique of Sachs
- Critique of Modernization
- Part II. Nonconventional, Critical Theories of Development
- Chapter 5. Marxism, Socialism, and Development
- Idealism and Materialism
- Dialectics
- Production as the Transformation of Nature
- Production as Social Relations
- Capital
- Mode of Production
- Development as Social Transformation
- Structural Marxism
- Imperialism
- Dependency Theory
- World Systems Theory
- Regulation Theory
- Criticisms of Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories
- Socialist Development in the USSR
- Cuba
- Venezuela
- Conclusion: Development in Contention
- Chapter 6. Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism
- The Enlightement and Its Critics
- Post-Enlightenment Criticisms
- Power-Truth-Knowledge
- Postcolonialism
- Intellectual Dependency Theory
- Rethinking Development
- The Poststructural Turn in Development Studies
- Encountering Development
- Postdevelopmentalism
- Conclusion: Countercritique
- Chapter 7. Feminist Theories of Development
- Feminist Epistemology
- Feminist Criticisms of Development Theory
- Women, Development, Theory
- Women in Development
- Women and Development
- Gender and Development
- Women, Environment, and Development
- Postmodernism and Development
- Critique: A Failure of Nerve?
- Part III. Critical Modernism
- Chapter 8. Critical Modernism and Democratic Development
- Alternatives
- Critical Modernism
- Democratic Development
- Ethics
- Social Movements
- Linkages
- Radical Democracy
- References
- Index
- About the Authors
