Introduction - discourse analysis and policy discourse, Des gasper and Raymond Apthorpe reading development policy and policy analysis - on framing, numbing, numbering and coding, Raymond Apthorpe analyzing policy arguments, Des Gasper re-reading "mountainous", "isolated", "inaccessible" and "small" - the case of Bhutan, Adam Pain methodological nationalism and the misunderstinding of East Asian industrialization, Charles Gore reading Americans on democracy in Africa - from the CIA to "good governance", David Moore essentialism in and about development discourse, Des Gasper.