Theories of development: contentions, argument, alternatives /
Richard Peet, Elaine Hartwick
- 2nd ed.
- New York: The guilford press, 2017.
- xii, 123 p. HB
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.