In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful
overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its …

German imperialism in Europe evokes images of military aggression and ethnic cleansing.
Yet, even under the Third Reich, Germans deployed more subtle forms of influence that can …

This work has been written for those interested in the governance, financial and industrial
development and international relations of the United States of America and East Asia …

William Petty (1623-1687), long recognised as a founding father of English political
economy, was actively involved in the military-colonial administration of Ireland following its …

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the
companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate …

This paper argues that Arthur Lewis originally presented the problem of economic
development in terms of an open system, in the sense that it focused on a number of …

The following thesis examines the role that Oxfam played in Kenyan development between
1963 and 2002. Academic studies of NGOs and their place in the development apparatus …

The intellectual roots of the theoretical and methodological apparatus deployed within
today's development economics do not lie, as is widely and complacently assumed, to the …

Thanks to the work of Mauro Boianovsky, it is possible to place the “classical” model of
Lewis in the broader context of the formation of development economics, on the one hand …

The seventeenth-century English writer William Petty has been described by Amartya Sen
as 'a founder of development economics'(Sen 1988: 10). Indeed, almost any branch of …