Economic Development Reading List by Dr. Laura Pearl Kaya, Fordham University I. Brief History of Production 1. Jared Diamond.

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race. Discover. May 1987: 64-66. 2. Esther Boserup. 1988. Environment, Population and Technology in Primitive Societies. In D. Worster, ed. The Ends of the Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3. Karl Marx. 1978. Excerpts from Capital, Vol. 1. In Robert Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton. Colonialism 4. Frantz Fanon. National Culture. 1997. In Roy Grinker and Christopher Steiner, eds. Perspectives on Africa. Malden: Blackwell. 1997. 5. Serena Nanda and Richard Warms. 2011. Power, Conquest, and a World System. In Culture Counts. New York: Cengage. 6. Otto Ulrich. 1991. Technology In Wolfgang Sachs, ed. The Development Dictionary. New York: Zed Books. Post-World War II Theories of Development 7. Walt Whitman Rostow. 1959. The Stages of Economic Growth. The Economic History Review. 12(1):1-16. 8. Andre Gunder Frank. 1969. The Development of Underdevelopment. Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press. 9. Gilbert Rist, Patrick Camiller, translator. 1997. Modernization Poised Between History and Prophecy. In The History of Development. New York: Zed Books. Trade/ Neoliberalism 10. David Harvey. 2007. Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction. Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science. 610:22-44. 11. Fletcher, Ian. 2011. The Deliberately Forgotten History of Trade. In Free Trade Doesnt Work. Washington, D.C.: Coalition for a Prosperous America. 12. Joseph Stiglitz. 1998. An Agenda for Development in the Twenty-First Century. In Boris Pleskovic and Joseph Stiglitz (eds.), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1997. Washington DC: The World Bank. 13. Julia Elychar. 2005. Value, the Evil Eye, and Economic Subjectivities. In Markets of Dispossession. Durham: Duke University Press. 14. Aihwa Ong. 1987. The Modern Corporation: Manufacturing Gender Hierarchy, Neophyte Factory Women and the Negative Image, and Spirits of Resistance. In Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline. New York: State University of New York Press. Migration/Urbanization 15. Mike Davis. 2006. The Prevalence of Slums, and Slum Ecology. In Planet of Slums. London: Verso. 16. Jane Collier. 1986. From Mary to Modern Woman. American Ethnologist 13(1):100107. 17. Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila. 1997. Im here but Im there. Gender and Society. 11(5):548-571.

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Population 18. Thomas Malthus. 1798. Chapter One, Chapter Two. In Essay on the Principle of Population. London: J. Johnson. 19. Ronald Lee. 2003. Demographic transition. Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(4):167-190. 20. Susan Greenhalgh. 2003. Planned Births, Unplanned Persons. American Ethnologist 30(2): 196-215. Health 21. Paul Farmer. 2004. New Malaise. In Pathologies of Power. Berkeley: University of California Press. 22. Elizabeth Pisani. 2008. Cooking up an Epidemic, Landscapes of Desire, and Ants in the Sugar Bowl. In The Wisdom of Whores. New York: Norton. 23. Craig James and Oyuntsetseg Chuluundorj. 2004. Free Markets and Dead Mothers. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 18(2):230-257. 24. Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 1985. Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking. Ethos 13(4):291-317. Agriculture and Natural Resources 25. Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner. 2001. The Curse of Natural Resources. European Economic Review 45:827-838. 26. Mandana Limbert. 2010. In the Eye of the Neighbor, There is Fire. In In the Time of Oil. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 27. Timothy Mitchell. 2002 The Object of Development. In The Rule of Experts. Berkeley: University of California Press. 28. Amartya Sen. 2002. Why half the planet is hungry. Observer, June 16, 2002, p. 25. 29. Vandana Shiva. 2000. Poverty and Globalization. BBC Reith Lecture. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture5.stm 30. Anonymous. n.d. Green Revolution Curse or Blessing? International Food Policy Research Institute. http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/pubs/pubs/ib/ib11.pdf. Accessed 12/14/2013 31. Hallie Eakin. 2006. Climate Impacts and Household Coping Strategies. In Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. War and Politics 32. Appadurai, Arjun. Globalization and Violence. In Fear of Small Numbers. North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2006. 33. Anderson, Benedict. Census, Map, Museum. In Imagined Communities. New York: Verso. 1987. 34. Blattman, Christopher and Edward Miguel. Civil War. Journal of Economic Literature. 18(1):3-57. 2010. 35. James Ferguson. 1994. The Anti-Politics Machine. The Ecologist 24(5): 176-181. 36. James Scott. 1999 Compulsory Villagization in Tanzania. In Seeing Like a State. New Haven: Yale University Press. 37. Harrison, Elizabeth. Corruption. Development in Practice 17(1): 672-678. 2007.