Gilbert Rist

'''Gilbert Rist''' (16 July 1938 – 15 February 2023) was a Swiss professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a thought leader of postdevelopment theory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Articles from journals |url=https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/2344973/ |access-date=2025-12-05 |website=www.sociostudies.org |language=en}}</ref> He was best known for his study, ''The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith'', which criticizes development and has been described as “to date, the most consequential and scholarly critique from the left of the development project”.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brinkerhoff |first=Jennifer M. |date=October 2002 |title=Review: The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith |url=https://doi.org/10.1086/344040 |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |volume=51 |issue=1|doi=10.1086/344040 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-09-07 |title=Book Review: The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith by Gilbert Rist |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2014/09/07/book-review-the-history-of-development-from-western-origins-to-global-faith-by-gilbert-rist/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |website=LSE Review of Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rieff |first=David |title=An American Passion for Tyrants {{!}} David Rieff |language=en |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/06/19/american-passion-tyrants/ |access-date=2023-05-09 |issn=0028-7504}}</ref> Rist held a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296?ln=en |title=Image du Tiers Monde et conceptions du développement: une étude des documents des organisations suisses de coopération au développement |date=1978 |publisher=Editions Georgi |isbn=978-2-604-00035-8 |editor-last=Rist |editor-first=Gilbert |location=Saint-Saphorin}}</ref>

Rist died on 15 February 2023, at the age of 84.<ref>[https://hommages.ch/defunts/gilbert-rist En hommage à Gilbert Rist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227112213/https://hommages.ch/defunts/gilbert-rist |date=2023-02-27 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

==Writings== '''English''' *Gilbert Rist, ''The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith'', Expanded Edition, London: Zed Books, 2003 *Gilbert Rist, ''The Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science'', London: Zed Books, 2011

'''French''' (selection) *(with Marie-Dominique PERROT and Fabrizio SABELLI), ''La mythologie programmée, L’économie des croyances dans la société moderne'', coll. Economie en liberté, PUF, Paris, 1992 *(with Majid Rahnema and Gustavo Esteva), ''Le Nord perdu, Repères pour l’après-développement'', coll. Forum du développement, Editions d’En Bas, Lausanne, 1992 *''Le développement, Histoire d'une croyance occidentale'', Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 1996 - also translated into Italian and Spanish *''L'économie ordinaire entre songes et mensonges'', Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, 2010

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130628073345/http://graduateinstitute.ch/Jahia/site/iheid/cache/bypass/teaching/faculty/retired_professors?alphafilter=PQR&personneId=999358ada1e1716844fdc01d4e717594] *[http://us.macmillan.com/author/gilbertrist]

==See also== *Development criticism

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