ABSTRACT
This chapter maps out major trends in contemporary development thinking, centring on development theories as organized reflections on development, rather than on development tout court. I argue that the lineages of development are quite mixed. It includes the application of science and technology to collective organization, but also managing the changes that arise from the application of technology. Virtually from the outset development includes an element of reflexivity. It ranges from infrastructure works (railways, roads, dams, canals, ports) to industrial policy, the welfare state, new economic policy, colonial economics and Keynesian demand management.
