Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-429) and index.

Table of Contents
Introduction - Majid Rahnema
Part I: The Vernacular World
1. The Original Affluent Society - Marshall Sahlins
2. Learning from Ladakh - Helena Norberg-Hodge
3. The Economy and Symbolic Sites of Africa - Hassan Zaoual
4. Our Responsibility to the Seventh Generation - Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette and Gabriel Regallet
5. The Sprial of the Ram's Horn: Boran Concepts of Development - Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa

Part II: The Development Paradigm
6. The Idea of Progress - Teodor Shanin
7. Faust, The First Developer - Marshall Berman
8. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World through Development - Arturo Escobar
9. Development as Planned poverty - Ivan Illich
10. Twenty-six Years Later - Ivan Illich in conversation with Majid Rahnema
11. Development and the People's Immune System: The Story of Another Variety of AIDS - Majid Rahnema

Part III: The Vehicles of Development
12. Paradoxical Growth - Serge Latouche
13. The Agony of the Modern State - Rajni Kothari
14. Education as an Instrument of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voice Report - Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Jo-Ann Archibald, Edouard Lizop and Majid Rahnema
15. Western Science and Its Destruction of Local Knowledge - Vandana Shiva
16. Colonization of the Mind - Ashis Nandy
17. The One and Only Way of Thinking - Ignacio Ramonet
18. The New Cultural Domination by the Media - James Petras
19. How the United Nations Promotes Development through Technical Assistance

Part IV: Development in Practice
20. How the Poor Develop the Rich - Susan George
21. To Be Like Them - Eduardo Galeano
22. Development and the Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho - James Ferguson
23. Transmigration in Indonesia: How Millions Are Uprooted - Graham Hancock
24. 'Women in Development': A Threat to Liberation - Pan Simmons
25. Tehri: A Catastrophic Dam inthe Himalayas - Peter Bunyard
26. The Development Game - Leonard Frank

Part V: Towards the Post-Development Age
27. From Global Thinking to Local Thinking - Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash
28. The Need for the Home Perspective - Wolfgang Sachs
29. Basta! Mexican Indians Say 'Enough!' - Gustavo Esteva
30. The Quest for Simplicity - 'My Idea of Swaraj' - Mahatma Gandhi
31. The Searchers after the Simple Life - David E. Shi
32. The infrapolitics of Subordinate Groups - James C. Scott
33. Alternatives from an indian Grassroots Perspective - D. L. Sheth
34. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central Eastern Europe - Vaclac Havel
35. Protecting the Space Within - Karen Lehman
36. Birth of the Inclusion Society - Judith A. Snow
37. Reinventing the Present: The Chodack Experience in Senegal - EmmanuelSeni N'Dione, Philippe de Leener, Jean-Pierre Perier, Mamadou Ndiaye and Pierre Jacolin

Afterword: Towards Post-Development: Searching for Signposts,a New Language and New Paradigms - Majid Rahnema
Suggested Readings
List of Boxes
Index