| Description |
vi, 398 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in development economics |
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Studies in development economics.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Rationality and the World / Frederique Apffel-Marglin -- pt. I. Decolonizing Development Knowledge. 2. Development for 'Big Fish' or 'Small Fish'? A Study of Contrasts in Tanzania's Fishing Sector / Marja-Liisa Swantz and Aili Mari Tripp. 3. The Economic Consequences of Pragmatism: A Re-Interpretation of Keynesian Doctrine / Nancy E. Gutman. 4. Two Phases of American Environmentalism: A Critical History / Ramachandra Guha. 5. Rationality, the Body, and the World: From Production to Regeneration / Frederique Apffel-Marglin -- pt. II. Decolonizing the 'Transfer-of-Technology' Model. 6. Farmers, Seedsmen, and Scientists: Systems of Agriculture and Systems of Knowledge / Stephen A. Marglin. 7. Hosting the Otherness of the Other: The Case of the Green Revolution / Gustavo Esteva. 8. Why Haldane Went to India: Modern Genetics in Quest of Tradition / Francis Zimmermann. 9. Footnotes to Vavilov: An Essay on Gene Diversity / Shiv Visvanathan. 10. The Savage Freud: The First Non-Western Psychoanalyst and the Politics of Secret Selves in Colonial India / Ashis Nandy. |
| Note |
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Economic development.
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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| Indexed Term |
Knowledge Sociology |
| Added Author |
Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique.
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Marglin, Stephen A.
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World Institute for Development Economics Research.
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| ISBN |
0198288840 |
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