Culture and Public Action, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (editors), Stanford University Press, 2004. The South Asia Edition has been published by Permanent Black.
Contributors (In Order of Chapters in the Book): Amartya Sen, Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, Marco Verweij, Timur Kuran, Arjo Klamer, Lourdes Arizpe, Sabina Alkire, Anita Abraham, Jean-Phiippe Platteau, Monica Das Gupta, Carol Jenkins, Fernando Calderon, Alicia Szmuckler, Simon Harragin, Shelton Davis,Vijayendra Rao, Michael Walton |
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Reviews, Commentaries And Further Reading
Reviews
David Brooks in the New York Times
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Commentaries
Essays on Culture and Public Action
Professor of History, Cambridge University Indegenous and Colonial Origins of Comparative Economic Development: The Case of India and Africa
Professor of Anthropology, George Washington Univ., ex-Senior Advisor, The World Bank, "Culture? At the World Bank? A Letter to a Friend" (Michael Cernea reminisces on the early days of socio-cultural awareness at the World Bank - commissioned for this web site)
Scott Guggenheim, Lead Social Scientist, World Bank Crises and Contradicions: Understanding the Origins of a Community Development Project in Indonesia
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota "Anthropology, economics, and development: Cross disciplines" (Commissioned for this web site)
Senior Research Fellow at The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research "The anthropology of development: bureaucracy vs the people" (Commissioned for this web site)
Professor of Economics at Boston University "Some Thoughts on Managing difference"
Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao Development Research Group, The World Bank "Community Based (and Driven) Development: A Critical Review (Discusses the evidence on how well participatory development has worked) David Mosse Dept. of Anthropology, School of Orient and African Studies (SOAS), London "Good Policy is Unimplementable? Reflections on the Ethnography of Aid and Practice,"
Professor of Economics, New York University Aspirations, Poverty and Economic Change (An economist's take on the Chapter by Appadurai)
Video of a discussion with Professor Amartya Sen on his life and work.
Presentations from the Conference Senior Research Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group Social Scientist with the Development Research Group at the World Bank "Culture and development: Rethinking implications for policy research" Senior Economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group "Implications for policy research" Country Director for Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru at the World Bank "Listening to beneficiaries to improve development effectiveness"
Senior Adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank
Discussants Comments on Book Chapters Professor of Economics at New York University "Comments on chapter by Arjun Appadurai" Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota "Comments on chapters by Amartya Sen and Arjun Appadurai" Senior Research Fellow at The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research "Comments on chapters by Anita Abraham/Jean-Phillipe Platteau and Simon Harragin" Secretary General of the Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women "Comments on chapters by Monica Das Gupta and Carol Jenkins"
Further Reading:Culture Concepts in Anthropology, Sociology and EconomicsCulture
Concept Culture
and Economics Anthropology
and Development Sociology
of Development
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