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Uses of Diversity

Essays in Polycentricity
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The author argues for the virtues of diversity in cities, organizations, strategies for development, and human discourse in general. The opening chapter develops the vision of Jane Jacobs (the "diva of diversity") for the development of city regions. Many of the later chapters are based on the author's ten years in the World Bank and Senior Advisor and speechwriter for Joseph Stiglitz. Many of the problems in the World Bank's policies were based on a narrow ideological vision that did not tolerate a diversity of pragmatic approaches to the complex questions of economic and social development. Finally, the narrow social-engineering criterion for evaluating social projects is cost-benefit analysis, and the penultimate chapter develops a logical fallacy in the Kaldor-Hicks Principle that is the theoretical basis for cost-benefit analysis.
Chapter 1: Jane Jacobs: The Diva of Diversity Chapter 2: Two Institutional Logics: Exit Vs. Voice and Commitment Chapter 3: Parallel Experimentation Chapter 4: Contestation and Devil's Advocacy Chapter 5: The Indirect Approach Chapter 6: Knowledge and Autonomy-Compatible Development Assistance Chapter 7: Investment Climate for Whom?: Rethinking Globalization Chapter 8: Revisiting the Privatization Debates Chapter 9: The Logical Fallacy in the Kaldor-Hick Principle and Cost-Benefit Analysis Chapter 10: A Summing Up
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