Fifty Key Thinkers on Development

<strong>Fifty Key Thinkers on Development</strong> is the essential guide to the worlds mostinfluential development thinkers. It presents a unique guide to the ... » 

Fifty Key Thinkers on Development is the essential guide to the worlds mostinfluential development thinkers. It presents a unique guide to the lives andideas of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studiesfrom both North and South. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritativeteam of contributors from different backgrounds and disciplines to reflect onthe lives and contributions of fifty leading development thinkers from aroundthe world. These include Modernizers like Hirshman Kindleberger and Rostow Dependencies such as Frank Cardoso and Amin Progressives like Prebisch Helleiner and Streeten Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of developmentsuch as Mao Nkrumah and Nyerere Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development such asGandhi and Ariyaratne Developmentenvironment thinkers like Blaikie Brookfield and ShivaThis invaluable reference is a conciseand accessible introduction to the livesand key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological anddisciplinary spectrum. «