Development Ethics at Work: Explorations 1960-2002

In earlier years, development was generally defined as a straightforward economic process. It is now widely acknowledged to be much more than involving fundamental value changes in areas such as policy planning, selection of priorities and the allocation of resources, as well as a determination of tolerable costs - human, environmental and cultural.In Part I of this book, Denis Goulet examines the evolution of development ethics as a specialized field of study and renders explicit the distinctive conceptual and methodological premises underlying this, as well as illustrating how a development ethicist can function in varied development arenas. "Development debates" on the nature of development, goals, priorities, and emphases are also examined.Part II explores the ethical dimensions of competing change strategies, of sacrificed generations and human costs attendant upon "progress," of differences between dependency-inducing and liberation models of development, of class realignment in times of far-reaching social change, of interaction of culture and development and of sustainability.In Part III, Denis Goulet examines the phenomenon of globalization and the language of interdependence which prevails in development discourse.Development Ethics is an interdisciplinary work which seeks to integrate the findings of analytical, policy, and normative "sciences," as these bear on the development process at the practical level. This book will prove essential reading to all those studying and working in the field of development economics and development studies.