Mirages of Development : : Science and Technology for the Third Worlds /

Mirages of Development : : Science and Technology for the Third Worlds / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Salomon, Jean-Jacques,
Lebeau, Andre ,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1993
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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