Text books
There is no single textbook for any of our MSc programmes but the following will be found generally useful:
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Allen, T and A Thomas, eds 2000 Poverty and Development into the Twenty First Century. Oxford etc: Oxford University Press (in association with the Open University)
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Harriss, J, J Hunter and C Lewis, eds 1995 The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London: Routledge
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Leys, C 1996 The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. London: James Currey
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Ray, D 1998 Development Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
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Todaro, M 1992 Economics for a Developing World: An Introduction to Problems, Principles and Policies, 3rd edition, London: Longman
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Wuyts, M, M Mackintosh and T Hewitt, eds 1992 Development Policy and Public Action. Oxford etc: Oxford University Press (in association with the Open University)
Required reading
The following are recommended for all to read:
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Bates, R 2001 Prosperity and Violence: the political economy of development. New York and London: W W Norton [an analytically powerful history of development in 115 pages]
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Sen, A K 1999 Development As Freedom. Oxford etc: Oxford University Press [an overview of his work by the Nobel prize winning economist who is the leading development thinker of our time]
Further background reading
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Davis, M 2001 Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. London: Verso [brilliant and very readable perspective on colonial development]
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Desai, M 2002 Marx's Revenge: the resurgence of capitalism and the death of statist socialism. London: Verso [calculated to provoke]
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Halliday, F 2001 The World At 2000. London: Palgrave [wise and passionate]
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Hart, K 2001 Money In An Unequal World. New York and London: Texere [whacky but always stimulating]
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Rosenberg, J 2000 The Follies of Globalisation Theory. London: Verso [fine counter to the globaloney which some would say is quite strong in the LSE!]
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Scholte, J A 2000 Globalisation: a critical introduction. London: Palgrave [one of Rosenberg's follies?]