Apostles of Development
Six Economists and the World They Made
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197766200
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 241x164x49 mm
- Weight 871 g
- Language English 632
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Short description:
Apostles of Development offers a bold new history of one of the most important enterprises of the 20th century--the project to end global poverty--through the lives and work of six of its most innovative practitioners, all former classmates at Cambridge University and all from the Global South. Deftly combining global history and biography, it shows how development began not in Washington or London or Paris but in the crowded cities and isolated villages of South Asia, home to some of the world's poorest countries in the mid-twentieth century. Sweeping in scope, Apostles of Development details how these six individuals shaped the entire project of international development across the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
MoreLong description:
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.
A splendid book - deft, intelligent, empathetic: bringing to life some of the most remarkable individuals and most important themes in the creation of the modern world.
Table of 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,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
