Apostles of Development

Six Economists and the World They Made

David Engerman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

576 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-776620-0 (ISBN)

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Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century. International development employed millions, affected billions, and spent trillions; it held the hopes of the former colonies to create an economic independence to match their newfound political one, and the plans of wealthy counties to build an enduring economic order.

The six Apostles in this book include some of South Asia's best-known names, like Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and long-serving Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as well as leading academics (Jagdish Bhagwati) and key policy-makers in both national and international circles. Taken together, this group both reflected and shaped the growing enterprise of international development from the time they left Cambridge in the mid-1950s well into the 2010s.

For many years, the second half of the twentieth century was understood primarily through the lens of the Cold War. And yet, for the majority of the world, living in what was then called the Third World (and which is now called the Global South), development was a constant, while American-Soviet geopolitics only occasionally impinged upon their lives. And these six, as much as any other group, changed the way economists theorized development and aid officials practiced it. Their biographies, then, are the history of development.

Based on newly available archival documents from 10 countries, and on interviews with four of the subjects, the widows of the other two, and almost 100 of their colleagues, friends, classmates, and rivals, this book combines riveting personal accounts with a sweeping history of one of the enduring human activities of the late 20th century and early 21st centuries: creating a more prosperous and equitable world.

David C. Engerman is Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. He is the author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts (OUP, 2009), and Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development and the editor or coeditor of multiple collections, including a volume of the Cambridge History of America and the World. Engerman served as elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2016.

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,1960-1970s

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, 1970-1980s

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
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 241 mm
Gewicht	871 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-19-776620-X / 019776620X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-776620-0 / 9780197766200
Zustand	Neuware