From the Outside Looking In

Experiences in Barefoot Economics

Manfred Max-Neef (Author)
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From the Outside Looking In

Experiences in Barefoot Economics

Manfred Max-Neef (Author)
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This book, now available in English for the first time, has become a classic since it was first published in 1982. Translated into five languages, it has had an extraordinary influence on grassroots development projects.

The author relates two of his own experiences in 'barefoot economics', interspersing these moving and insightful accounts with reflections on development projects and experts, pioneering criticism of of orthodox development economics, and a new vision of development in which the poor must learn to circumvent the national economic system.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Leopold Kohr
Prelude
Part I: The ECU-28 Project: Horizontal Communication for Peasants' Participation and Self-Reliance
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Interlude (I)
3. Theoretical Interlude (II)
4. The Perception of Reality
5. In a World Apart
6. The Peasants Get Together
7. In a World of Our Own
8. Far Away and Long Ago

Part II: The 'Tiradentes Project': Revitalization of Small Cities for Self-Reliance
9. Introduction
10. Theoretical Interlude (III)
11. Encounter with Reality
12. A Scheme for Action
13. The Action Starts
14. Navigation and Return

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Product details

Published 07 Sep 1992
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781856491884
Imprint Zed Books
Dimensions Not specified
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Manfred Max-Neef

Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean-German economist in…

Reviews

  • This book will have many readers among economists and politicians, as well as among the increasing number of people concerned with development and project design.

    Chronicle

  • Written with passion, this book also inspires passion in the reader, above all because it views the problem of poverty from a new and more human angle.

    Development and Education Exchange Papers

  • A clear break from the conventional approach to economics.

    West Africa

  • A masterpiece. The three "theoretical interludes" are remarkable for their insight, originality and profundity.

    John Papworth, The Fourth World

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