Title Far-fetched facts : a parable of development aid / Richard Rottenburg ; translated by Allison Brown and Tom Lampert.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xxvii, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Inside technology
	Inside technology.
Note	Translated from the German.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-229) and index.
Contents	The solid ground of development policy -- The risks of the entrepreneur -- The disclosures of science -- Interstitial spaces -- Trading zones -- Metacode, cultural code.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.
Subject	Economic assistance -- Developing countries.
	Social change -- Developing countries.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
	Economic assistance. (OCoLC)fst00901592
	Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
	Developing countries. (OCoLC)fst01242969
Added Title	Weit hergeholte fakten. English
Other Form:	Print version: Rottenburg, Richard. Weit hergeholte Fakten. English. Far-fetched facts. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262182645 0262182645 (DLC) 2008041180 (OCoLC)261204375
Standard No.	9786612240607
ISBN	9780262255035 (electronic bk.)
	0262255030 (electronic bk.)

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