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

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