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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salomon, Jean Jacques, Author.

Lebeau, André, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-472-9

OCLC:

1378174646