Subject(s): Economic assistance -- Economic development -- Sustainable development. -- Modernization -- Development, metamorphoses of a western myth, making of a world system- colonization, league of nations and mandate system, invention of development , underdevelopment, US hegemony, development age, international doctrine and institutions take root- new international development agencies, modernization poised between history and prophecy - Rostow's stages of economic growth, anti-communism , Marxist -- Neo-Marxism in US, Latin American dependentistas, self reliance - communal past as a model for future, Triumph of third worldism- international economic order, 1975 dag hammarskjold foundation report on another development, wake of NIEO, basic need approach -- Environment, or new nature of development : return to classical economics plus a few humanitarian extras, sustainable development, earth summit, mixture of realism and fine sentiments- UNDP and human development -- Post-modern illusion- globalization as simulacrum of development : usefulness of talking at cross purposes, globalization, globalisation, virtual reality as a refuge for continuing belief , struggles against poverty