Gustavo Esteva

The future of development

A radical manifesto

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On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as underdeveloped and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It 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. The authors argue that it is possible for everyone on the planet to live well, but only if we learn… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Babones, Salvatore J.

ISBN: 978-1-4473-1204-8
EAN: 9781447312048
Produktnummer: 20529290
Verlag: Policy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 815 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Gustavo Esteva is a grassroots activist and prolific author. He works in collaboration with Universidad de la Tierra, in Mexico, and many organizations and networks around the world. Salvatore Babones teaches sociology and social policy at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on globalization, inequality, and quantitative methodology. Philipp Babcicky is a PhD student at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on environmental sustainability and the sociology of consumption.