Theories of development: contentions, argument, alternatives / Richard Peet, Elaine Hartwick

Ch. 1. Development --
The geography of development --
measuring growth and development --
Criticisms of development measures --
The face of poverty --
Contentions over development --
pt. I. Conventional theories of development --
Ch. 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 --
Ch. 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 --
Ch. 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 --
pt. II. Nonconventional, critical theories of development. Ch. 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 --
Ch. 6. Poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and postdevelopmentalism --
The enlightenment 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 --
Ch. 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? --
pt. III. Critical modernism --
Ch. 8. Critical modernism and democratic development --
Alternatives --
Critical modernism --
Democratic development --
Ethics --
Social movements --
Linkages --
Radical democracy.