The Development Dictionary : A Guide to Knowledge as Power / edited by Wolfgang Sachs.

Development - Gustavo Esteva -- Environment - Wolfgang Sachs -- Equality - C. Douglas Lummis -- Helping - Marianne Gronemeyer -- Market - Gerard Berthoud -- Needs - Ivan Illich -- One World - Wolfgang Sachs -- Participation - Majid Rahnema -- Planning - Arturo Escobar -- Population - Barbara Duden -- Poverty - Majid Rahnema -- Production - Jean Robert -- Progress - Jose Maria Sbert -- Resources - Vandana Shiva -- Science - Claude Alvares -- Socialism - Harry Cleaver -- Standard of Living - Serge Latouche -- State - Ashis Nandy -- Technology - Otto Ullrich

In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility. The authors argue that a bidding farewell to the whole Euro-centric development idea is urgently needed, in order to liberate people’s minds - in both North and South - for bold responses to the environmental and ethical challenges now confronting humanity. The combined result forms a must-read invitation to experts, grassroots movements and students of development to recognize the tainted glasses they put on whenever they participate in the development discourse.

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