Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Development and History (ed. Corinna R. Unger and Nicholas Ferns)
5. Globalizing Development: A View from Late Imperial China 15
6. Where Did the Idea of International Development Come From? Looking Beyond the Industrialized Core 37
7. Entangled Histories of “Development,” “development,” and “Christian development” 59
8. Development, Modernization, and the Remaking of an Imperial World Order 81
9. Which Speeches Matter? Reflections on the Invention of Development 103
10. II Measuring Development (ed. Corinna R. Unger and Jack Loveridge)
11. The Historiography of Measuring Development 131
12. Numbers in Space: Measuring Living Standards and Regional Inequality in the Soviet Union 155
13. Profitability Through Quantification: The World Bank and Rural Development in the 1970s 183
14. Was the Large Dam a “Modern Temple”? Taking Stock of India’s Development Tryst with the Bhakra-Nangal 205
15. III Forum: Alternative Development Indices (ed. Iris Borowy and Corinna R. Unger)
16. A Note on the Historical Origins of ISEW-GPI 227
17. The Origins of the National Welfare Index (NWI) 235
18. GNH-Led Development in Bhutan 243
19. The Happy Planet Index 251
20. Commentary: The New Epicureans 259
21. List of contributors 269