| | Michael Cowen and Robert Shenton have written an extraordinary book. It is a real 'archaeology of knowledge' , an intellectual excavation of the layers of assumptions and ideas which inform the language of the discourses of the study and practice of 'development' and which shape the arguments of its practitioners and of their critics in ways they are little aware of. Keynes pointed out that practical men of affairs turn out, on investigation, to be the slaves of outdated doctrines. So it is with 'development' . |
