Gilbert Rist
Gilbert Rist (* July 16, 1938 in Geneva ) is a Swiss professor at the Institut universitaire d' études du développement the University of Geneva. He was known for his critical analysis of development policy and its underlying idea of development.
Bibliography
- ( with Fabrizio Sabelli ): Il était une fois le développement. dt The Tale of the development: a Myth of Western industrial society and its consequences for the "third world". Rotpunktverl. , Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85869-053-8.
- ( with Marie -Dominique Perrot and Fabrizio Sabelli ), La mythology programmée, L' économie the croyances dans la société modern coll Economie en liberté, PUF, Paris, 1992.
- ( with Majid Rahnema and Gustavo Esteva ): Le Nord perdu, Repères pour l' après- développement. coll Forum du développement, Editions d'En Bas, Lausanne, 1992.
- Le développement, Histoire d'une croyance occidentale. Presses de Sciences Po, Paris 1996 - Engl. The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. 3rd edition, Zed Books, London 2008, ISBN 1848131895 ( limited preview on Google Book Search on Italian and Spanish published )