The history of development: From Western origins to global faith

Definitions of development; Metamorphoses of a Western myth; The making of a world system; The invention of development; The international doctrine and institutions take root; Modernization poised between history and prophecy; The periphery and the understanding of history; Self-relaince: the communal past as a model for the future; The triomph of third-worldism; The environment, or the new nature of development; A mixture of realism and fine sentiments; The postmodern illusion: globalization as simulacrum of development; Some thoughts on what is to be done; The struggle against poverty.