The Rise and Fall of Development Theory

by Colin Leys

Book Overview

"He has this wonderful and rare capacity to delineate the most complex of arguments in the most limpid prose. He never takes refuge in jargon. He demolishes pretentiousness. He is disarmingly honest. He hits you between the eyes. He is not afraid to be a lone voice as, increasingly, nowadays he is, the still small voice of humane sanity in an increasingly barbarous and market-oriented world. He makes immediate sense to anybody voting marginally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025321016X
• ISBN13: 9780253210166
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"