📚 Economic Development

Wealth creation for whole countries: the planning era, the basic-needs turn, and the aid effectiveness argument.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject economic development in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Small Is Beautiful	E. F. Schumacher	1905	50
	Economics	Richard G. Lipsey	1966	50
	The Great Ascent	Robert L. Heilbroner	1963	25
	Tools for Conviviality	Ivan Illich	1973	25
	The process of economic development	James M. Cypher	1997	23
	Economic growth in the West	Angus Maddison	1964	20
	Economic development	Michael P. Todaro	1994	20
	A neo-classical theory of economic growth	J. E. Meade	1961	19
	Development as Freedom	Amartya Sen	1999	19
	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
	Bad Samaritans	Ha-Joon Chang	1998	14
	Environmental economics	Barry C. Field	1979	13
	Social limits to growth	Fred Hirsch	1976	12
	Peddlers and Princes	Clifford Geertz	1900	11
	Economic theory and under-developed regions	Gunnar Myrdal	1957	11
	Economics explained	Robert L. Heilbroner	1982	11
	Economic development in the Third World	Michael P. Todaro	1977	9
	Tourism and Development	Richard Sharpley	2002	9
	The economics of development and planning	M. L. Jhingan	1978	8
	Democracy and capitalism	Samuel S. Bowles	1986	8
	Introduction to economic growth	Charles I. Jones	1998	8
	How Asia Works	Joe Studwell	2013	8
	Economic geography	Neil M. Coe	2007	7
	Enough is enough	Rob Dietz	2012	7
	Economic Growth and Development	Sibabrata Das	2015	7
	The ecology of commerce	Paul Hawken	1993	6
	Economic growth	David N. Weil	2004	6
	Environmental economics	Barry C. Field	2005	6
	Economic growth	Olivier de La Grandville	2008	6
	Indian Economy	Uma Kapila	2009	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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