Fifty Key Thinkers on Development is the essential guide to the world's most influential development thinkers. It presents a unique guide to the lives and ideas of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies from both North and South. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of fifty leading development thinkers from around the world. These include:

? Modernizers like Hirshman, Kindleberger and Rostow
? Dependencies such as Frank, Cardoso and Amin
? Progressives like Prebisch, Helleiner and Streeten
? Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah and Nyerere
? Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi and Ariyaratne
? Development-environment thinkers like Blaikie, Brookfield and Shiva

This invaluable reference is a conciseand accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum.