Recommended by: Rasananda Panda

Summary:"Apostles of Development offers an analytical history of international development through the lives and work of six of its most distinguished practitioners. These so-called "Apostles" were all born in the 1930s as subjects of Britain's South Asian empire; after education there they all studied in the famed economics faculty of Cambridge University in the 1950s before beginning successful careers that traversed national policy, international institutions, and academic life. Their accolades included a Nobel Prize and a long-running Prime Ministership. Their careers spanned more than half a century and touched on the major moments in the history of international development, from the growth paradigm of the 1950s/1960s to the critique of growth and the rise of Basic Human Needs in the 1970s; the turn to Structural Adjustment in the 1980s; Human Development; and the rise of NGOs in the 1990s and beyond. Based on archival documents from ten countries as well as almost 100 interviews, the book shows how development was emerging from conditions in and the efforts of the Global South.

Contents:

Contents
Introduction: Development as History and Biography
PART I: PORTRAITS OF THE ECONOMISTS AS YOUNG MEN, 1930S-1950S
1. Coming of Age in a New South Asia
2. The Problems of Keynesianism
3. Apostolic Ascension
4. Advancing Economics
PART II: GROWTH AND ITS DISCONTENTS, 1960S-1970S
5. The Paradigm of Growth
6. Trading Alternatives
7. The Price of Growth
8. Unequal and Separate
9. Socialism Sweeps South Asia
PART III: THE BATTLE TO DEMOCRATIZE THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY, 1970S-1980S
10. Redefining Development at the World Bank
11. Fighting over the International Monetary Fund
12. A New International Economic Order?
13. Adjustment at Home and Abroad
PART IV: RIGHTWARD TURN, 1980S
14. The Right of Reform
15. Reforms by Stealth
16. Southern Solidarities
17. Developing Humans
PART V: LIBERALIZATION THEOLOGY, 1990S-
18. The Liberation of India
19. From Liberalization to Globalization
20. On Governance and Non-Governmentality
21. Of Markets, Memorials, and the Nobel Prize
22. Toward Inclusive Growth
Epilogue: Looking Back
Note on Sources
List of Archival and Electronic Sources Consulted
Conversations and Correspondence
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations