It is most interesting that in all this exchange of references and ideas 
(all written in English), including many of the suggested surveys, does 
not mention even by mistake all the discussion on development written in 
Portuguese and Castilian during the 1950's throgugh the 1970's, when the 
World Bank buried the discussion on development and we all turned to 
search for equilibrium.
Fidel Aroche


El 04/02/2011 06:20 p.m., Pedro Teixeira escribió:
> Dear Sergio,
>
> an interesting read may be:  Gerald Meier's "Biography of a Subject - An Evolution of Development Economics", OUP (2005). This is mostly about the development of Development economics as a field of study in economics, but it may still be quite useful.
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> Best wishes,
>
> Pedro
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> Assunto: [SHOE] The Idea of Development
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you can point me to something recent about the origin of the idea of economic development. I have read H.W. Arndt´s The History of an Idea (1987) and a very interesting collection of papers edited by Frederick Cooper and Randal Packard called International Development and the Social Sciences (1997) But I´d like to know if there is anything more recent that any of you can recommend. Thanks in advance for any help.
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> Sergio
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