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The future of development : a radical manifesto.
This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The future of development; Contents; About the authors; Preface; 1. The birth of development and underdevelopment; The creation of underdevelopment; Conceptual conflation: development and growth; The invention of scarcity and the creation of needs; Development as practice; 2. Development statistics and what they tell us; A shift in perspective; Living and dying; The ultimate indicator: GDP per capita; Ginis, medians, and purchasing power parities; 'Freedom, ' 'democracy, ' and 'corruption'; 3. Alternatives to the cult of growth; The end of the illusion; The right to stop development.
- Redevelopment and the rise of neoliberalismBeyond development; Hope from the margins; 4. There is enough for everyone; Unpacking ecological scarcity; Unpacking food scarcity; Unpacking atmospheric scarcity; The unsustainability of 'sustainable development'; Putting an end to scarcity; Taking less rather than giving more; 5. Reorganizing society from the bottom up; Insurrection against the market; Recovering a sense of proportion; Pondering the alternative path; 6. The reclamation of the commons; Relocalization; The rumour; A new awareness; Enclosing the enclosers; The new commons.
- New social movements for a new era7. Epilogue: a role for development scholars and practitioners; A story; Between justice and survival; How can I help?; Two stories and a conclusion; Glossary; Index.