Comprising writings ordered around intentional and imminent 'development', this reader offers a compendium of classical and contemporary debates on development: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs

Introduction / Petter Næss and Leigh Price -- Ideology and economics / Tony Lawson -- The economics of research : the contribution of critical realism / David Tyfield -- Inaccurate and biased : cost-benefit analyses of transport infrastructure projects / Petter Næss -- Arguments for and...