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:
A· Modernizers like Hirshman, Kindleberger and Rostow
A· Dependencies such as Frank, Cardoso and Amin
A· Progressives like Prebisch, Helleiner and Streeten
A· Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah and Nyerere
A· Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi and Ariyaratne
A· Development-environment thinkers like Blaikie, Brookfield and Shiva
This invaluable reference is a conciseand accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum.