Sergio, there are some "old" stuff that can nevertheless be useful for you,
because they tell the story of development economics. You probably know
about it, but, just in case...:
Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers, Pioneers in development. Oxford U Press.
P. P. Streeten, Thinking about development. Cambridge U Press, 1995.
Joseph L. Love, Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Underdevelopment in
Rumania and Brazil. Stanford U Press, 1996.
Albert O Hirschman, "The rise and decline of Development Economics", in: A.
O. Hirschman, Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond, 1981.
Ana Maria Bianchi
Universidade de Sao Paulo
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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)
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Silva-Castaneda
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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