Sergio, 
 
Based on my own search of a couple of years back, and my current PhD student's work on the question - there is surprisingly little.  The official histories from the World Bank enable you to trace their changing views about development (and there is a recent book by Michele Alacevich on the Bank).  There are some 'participant history' chapters in textbooks and monographs on development; there are some useful biographical/autobiographical sources on people like Arthur Lewis; and of course some impressive pieces by Albert Hirschman on Latin America (which I guess you probably know).  (Ana Maria Bianchi at Sao Paulo also has some papers on Hirschman, and Jeremy Adelman is doing a biography of him.)  I can also recommend this paper by Daniel Speich here (which may by now be published):
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/pdf/FACTSPDF/3308Speich.pdf
 
Mary Morgan (LSE, currently Davis Fellow, Princeton) <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/Research/facts/Events.htm> 

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Sent: Fri 04/02/2011 16:41
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Subject: [SHOE] The Idea of Development


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.

Sergio

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