Apostles of Development - Six Economists and the World They Made

Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made



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English | ISBN: 019776620X | 2025 | 576 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development–the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world–into a juggernaut of the second half of the twentieth century. International development employed millions, affected billions, and spent trillions; it held the hopes of the former colonies to create an economic independence to match their newfound political one, and the plans of wealthy counties to build an enduring economic order.

The six Apostles in this book include some of South Asia's best-known names, like Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and long-serving Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as well as leading academics (Jagdish Bhagwati) and key policy-makers in both national and international circles. Taken together, this group both reflected and shaped the growing enterprise of international development from the time they left Cambridge in the mid-1950s well into the 2010s.