Mirages of Development : : Science and Technology for the Third Worlds / / Andre Lebeau, Jean-Jacques Salomon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Salomon, Jean-Jacques,; Lebeau, Andre ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART I THE SETBACKS TO DEVELOPMENT --; 1 No Shortcut to Development After All --; 2 The Many Third Worlds --; 3 A Basic Discontinuity --; 4 The Contemporary Technical System --; 5 The Science of the Poor --; PART 2 THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION --; 6 The Looking-Glass Race --; 7 The Machines from the North --; 8 The Cathedrals in the Desert --; 9 The Newly Industrialized Countries --; 10 History's Revenge --; Appendix --; Notes --; Index --; About the Book and the Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685854720; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685854720
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andre Lebeau, Jean-Jacques Salomon.

The authors consider why the great majority of Third World countries have failed to solve the problems of underdevelopment by relying on science and technology, while a very few of them—the newly industrialized countries—have at least partially succeeded.