This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

Macroeconomics -- Macroeconomic thought during the long nineteenth century -- Gold standard, reparations, mania, crash, and depression -- Maynard ascendant -- Keynesian growth, cycles, and crisis -- The counter-revolution -- Finance -- The international dimension -- Keynesianism and the crisis