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Pursuing the Good Life: The Meaning of Development as It Relates to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  1. How the Concept of Development Got Started
  2. The Functions of the IMF and the World Bank
  3. Competing Theories of Economic Development
  4. The 1960s and 1970s: The World Bank Attacks Poverty; Developing Countries Attack the IMF
  5. The 1980s: The Debt Crisis and the Lost Decade


Part 1-I: How the Concept of Development Got Started

ECONOMICS & DEVELOPMENT

HISTORY & HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT

  1. Heinz W. Arndt, Economic Development: The History of an Idea (1987).
  2. Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy (1976).
  3. Andre Gunder Frank, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil (1967).
  4. William Otto Henderson, The Industrialization of Europe 1780-1914 (1969).
  5. Robert Latouche, The Birth of Western Economy: Economic Aspects of the Dark Ages (1966).
  6. Robert Sabatino Lopez, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages (1973).
  7. Robert Roswell Palmer, A History of the Modern World (1984).
  8. Sidney Pollard, Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe (1981).
  9. Richard William Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages (1953).
  10. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the
  11. Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750 (1980).

VLADIMIR LENIN

  1. Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works (45 vols. , Trans. of the 4th Enlarged Russian ed.,
  2. Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1960-1970).
  3. Vladimir Lenin, The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1898).
  4. Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916).

JOHN MEYNARD KEYNES

  1. John Maynard Keynes, Indian Currency and Finance, Vol. 1 (Donald Moggridge ed., 1978).
  2. John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (2000).
  3. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1997).
  4. John Maynard Keynes, Collected Writings: Bibliography and Index (1990).
  5. John Maynard Keynes, A Revision of the Treaty, Vol. 3 (Donald Moggridge ed., 1978).

MARSHALL

  1. Alfred Marshall, Money Credit and Commerce (1997).
  2. Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1997).
  3. Alfred Marshall, The Pure Theory of Foreign Trade. The Pure Theory of Domestic
  4. Values (photo. reprint 1949) (1879).

KARL MARX

  1. Interpretations of Marx (Tom Bottomore ed., 1988).
  2. Jon Elster, An Introduction to Karl Marx (1986).
  3. Karl Marx: A Reader (Jon Elster ed., 1986).
  4. 2 Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (David Fernbach trans., VintagE-Books 1981) (1978).
  5. The Marx-Engels Reader (Robert C. Tucker ed., 1972).
  6. Robert C. Tucker, The Marxian Revolutionary Idea (1969).

ADAM SMITH

  1. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776).
  2. Adam Smith, Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976-83)
  3. Essays on Adam Smith (A.S. Skinner & T. Wilson eds., 1975).


Part 1-II: The Functions of the IMF and the World Bank

HISTORY

BWIs

IMF

WORLD BANK


Part 1-III: Competing Theories of Economic Development

Books

  1. The Economics of Underdevelopment (A.N. Agarwala & S.P. Singh eds., 1958). Theories of Income Distribution (Athanasios Asimakopulos ed., 1988). Jere R. Behrman, Macroeconomic Policy in a Developing Country: The Chilean Experience (1977).
  2. David Colman & Frederick Nixson, Economics of Change in Less Developed Countries (2d ed. 1986).
  3. Celso Furtado, Development and Underdevelopment (Ricardo W. De Aguiar & Eric Charles Drysdale trans., 1964).
  4. Celso Furtado, Obstacles to Development in Latin America (Charles Ekker trans., 1970).
  5. The Theory and Experience of Economic Development: Essays in Honor of Sir W. Arthur Lewis (Mark Gersovitz et al. eds., 1982).
  6. Nicholas V. Gianaris, Economic Development: Thought and Problems (1978). J.C. Glass & W. Johnson, Economics: Progression, Stagnation or Degeneration? (1989).
  7. Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development (Tom Bottomore ed., Morris Watnick & Sam Gordon trans., Routledge 1981) (1910).
  8. Albert O. Hirschman, The Strategy of Economic Development (1958). Diana Hunt, Economic Theories of Development: An Analysis of Competing Paradigms(1989).
  9. Cristóbal Kay, Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment (1989).
  10. Jorge Larrain, Theories of Development: Capitalism, Colonialism and Dependency (1989).
  11. David H. Lempert et al., A Model Development Plan: New Strategies and Perspectives (1995).
  12. Leading Issues in Economic Development (Gerald M. Meier ed., 5th ed. 1989). From Dependency to Development: Strategies to Overcome Underdevelopment and Inequality (Heraldo Muñoz ed., 1980).
  13. Gunnar Myrdal, Economic Theory and Under-Developed Regions (1957).
  14. Ian Roxborough, Theories of Underdevelopment (1979).
  15. Amartya Kumar Sen, Choice of Techniques: An Aspect of the Theory of Planned Economic Development (2d ed. 1962).
  16. 1-3 Handbook of Development Economics (T.N. Srinivasan et al. eds., 1988-1995). Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics (1st ed. 1993).
  17. Paul Streeten et al., First Things First: Meeting Basic Needs in the Developing Countries (1981).
  18. R.M. Sundrum, Development Economics: A Framework for Analysis and Policy (1983).
  19. Lance Taylor, Income Distribution, Inflation, and Growth: Lectures on Structuralist Macroeconomic Theory (1991). Socially Relevant Policy Analysis: Structuralist Computable General Equilibrium Models for the Developing World (Lance Taylor ed., 1990).
  20. Lance Taylor, Structuralist Macroeconomics: Applicable Models for the Third World (1983).
  21. Michael S. Todaro, Economic Development (6th ed. 1997).

Articles & Reports

  1. C.E. Ayres, Economic Development: An Institutionalist Perspectives, in Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives 45 (James L. Dietz & James H. Street eds., 1987).
  2. Pranab Bardhan, Economics of Development and the Development of Economics, 7 J. Econ. Perspectives 129 (1993).
  3. Pranab Bardhan, Alternative Approaches to Development Economics: An Evaluation, in 1 Handbook of Development Economics 39 (Hollis Chenery & T. N. Srinivasan eds., 1988).
  4. Henry J. Bruton, The Search for a Development Economics, 13 World Dev. 1099 (1985).
  5. Lan Cao, Toward a New Sensibility for International Economic Development, 32 Tex. Int'l L.J. 209 (1997).
  6. Enrique R. Carrasco, Law, Hierarchy, and Vulnerable Groups in Latin America: Towards a Communal Model of Development in a Neoliberal World, 30 Stan. J. Int'l L. 221 (1994).
  7. Alejandro Foxley, Latin American Experiments in Neo-Conservative Economics, in Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives 244 (James L. Dietz & James H. Street eds., 1987).
  8. Nora Lustig, From Structuralism to Neostructuralism: The Search for a Heterodox Paradigm, in The Latin American Development Debate: Neostructuralism, Neomonetarism, and Adjustment Processes 27 (Patricio Meller ed., 1991).
  9. James H. Street, The Ayres-Kuznets Framework and Argentine Dependency, in Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives 54 (James L. Dietz & James H. Street eds., 1987).
  10. James H. Street, The Latin American Structuralists and the Institutionalists: Convergence in Development Theory, in Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives 101 (James L. Dietz & James H. Street eds., 1987).
  11. Econ. Comm'n for Latin America, The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems, U.N. Sales No. 1950. II.G.2 (1950).

Websites

  1. Yousuf Dhamee, David Ricardo (last modified May 18, 1998) <http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/economics/ric.html>.
  2. Yousuf Dhamee, Victorian Economics: An Overview (visited Aug. 29, 1999) <http://landow.stg.Brown.edu/victorian/economics/econov.html>.
  3. Paul J. Healy, The Cold War (visited Aug. 29, 1999) <http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~phealy/welcome.html>.
  4. Library of Congress, For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (visited Aug. 29, 1999) <http://rs7.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/>.
  5. Neoclassical Economics (last modified Sep.29, 1998) <http://william-king.www.drexel.edu:80/economics/mccain/txt/Neoch/Eco111s1.html>. Steve Schoenherr, Cold War Policies 1945-1991


Part 1-IV: The 1960s and the 1970sL The World Bank Attacks Poverty: Developing Countries Attack the IMF

CRITIQUES OF THE BWIs

  1. Bretton Woods Revisited: Evaluations of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (A.L. Keith Acheson et al. eds., 1972).
  2. Michael Chossudovsky, The Globalisation of Poverty: Impact of IMF and World Bank Reform (1997).
  3. Alejandro Foxley, Stabilization Policies and Their Effects on Employment and Income Distribution: A Latin American Perspective, in Economic Stabilization in Developing Countries 191 (William R. Cline & Sidney Weintraub eds., 1981).
  4. Andre Gunder Frank, Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution; Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy (1970).
  5. Celso Furtado, Obstacles to Development in Latin America (Charles Ekker trans., 1970).
  6. The Poverty Brokers: The IMF and Latin America (Martin Honeywell ed., 1983).
  7. The IMF and Ghana: The Confidential Record 61 (Eboe Hutchful ed., 1987).

NIEO

POVERTY


Part 1-V: The 1980s: The Debt Crisis & The Lost Decade

DEBT & CRISIS

Books

Articles

DEBT, ADJUSTMENT & REFORM

DEBT & DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

    1. Irma Adelman & Sherman Robinson, Income Distribution and Development, in 2 Handbook of Development 949 (Hollis Chenery & T.N. Srinivasan eds., 1989).
    2. Nora Lustig, Equity and Growth in Mexico, in Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America: Pathways from Hirschman's Thought 219 (Simon Teitel ed., 1992).
    3. Pedro Malan & Regis Bonelli, The Success of Growth Policies in Brazil, in Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America 47(Simón Teitel ed., 1992).
    4. George Psacharopoulos et al., Poverty and Income Inequality in Latin America During the 1980s, 41 Rev. of Income & Wealth 245 (1995).
    5. Marcelo Selowsky & Herman G. van der Tak, The Debt Problem and Growth, 14 World Dev. 1107 (1986).
    6. Ernest Stern, Prospects of Development Financing in the 1980s, 32 Am. Univ. L. Rev. 145 (182).