Gilbert Rist (16 July 1938 – 15 February 2023) was a Swiss educator who was honorary professor at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in
Geneva. 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”.[1][2][3] Rist held a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies.[4]
Rist died on 15 February 2023, at the age of 84.[5]
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