Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 5

Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 5

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-29

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1351107674

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Originally published in 1995, this book follows the preceding 4 volumes (Aisa, Africa, Latin America and Developed Countries) and discusses technological transformation in development history. It looks back on two centuries of history of the emergence of developed countries and examines the various aspects determining the speed, size and shape of the historical process of transformation in developed countries after World War 2.


Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 3

Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 3

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1351108336

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Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Latin America: Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. These studies bring out sharply the processes at work in Latin America between 1950 and 1980, which were responsible for the crisis that the continent faced in the 1980s. In each case there was a striking failure in building up national technological capability so that the country could grapple with the problems it faced.


Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 1

Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 1

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1351110055

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Originally published in 1993, this book contains 4 studies on Asia: Bangladesh, India, South Korea and Sri Lanka. The studies reflect 4 different patterns of technological transformation. India, with its large populaiton has made considerable progress but its overall development has been slow until recently. At the other extreme, South Korea which had a very low per capita income in the 1950s registered a quantum leap in technological transformation within a short span of 30 years. The heritage of Bangladesh's past has constrained its progress in overcoming structural weaknesses but in comparison, Sri Lanka displays a very different pattern. The sources used draw upon research in development economics, economic history, technology and studies in general and country studies in particular.


Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 4

Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 4

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1351066765

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Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Finland, Greece and Japan. These countries were chosen because they experienced their technological transformation mainly during the 20th Century and it was considered that their experience would have some relevant lessons for the countries of the third world. Special attention is paid to Japan as its example has great relevance both for development theory and practical strategies.


Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 2

Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume 2

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-26

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1351109731

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Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies on Africa: Algeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The studies underline the difficulties which Africa has faced in initiating its technological transformation. During the post WW2 period liberation from colonialism came relatively late and therefore many African countries did not have the possibility of participating in the rapid growth of global output and trade. Debt, drought and famine have put additional burdens on the economic conditions of the continet. Adverse conditions and poor infrastructure have made the continent much more vulnerable to both external and internal disturbances and as a result many countries have not had the opportunity to make a real beginning towards their transformation.


Cities in the Third Wave

Cities in the Third Wave

Author: Leonard I. Ruchelman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780742539099

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Cities in the Third Wave surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. In the belief that technology is the force that has created and recast cities throughout history, this book addresses the important question of how the modern-day technology affects cities today and how it will shape cities in the future.


IBSS: Economics: 1993 Vol 42

IBSS: Economics: 1993 Vol 42

Author:

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780415111478

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This bibliography lists the most important works published in economics in 1993. Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, the IBSS provides researchers and librarians with the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. The IBSS is compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics, one of the world's leading social science institutions. Published annually, the IBSS is available in four subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.


Technological Transformation and Development in the South

Technological Transformation and Development in the South

Author: Surendra J. Patel

Publisher: APH Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9788131302262

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These essays cover approximately a half a century from approximately the 1960s to the end of the millennium. Patel begins with a broad review of changes in the world economy in the second half of the twentieth century and then summarizes its main features. "In all his work, Surendra Patel was purposeful in making the science of economics work for the betterment of the human race. He had the rare ability to make economic statistics talk to us, to chart the remarkable achievements of the third world in the four decades following decolonization..."-Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Honourary President of Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.


Technological Transformation

Technological Transformation

Author: E.F. Byrne

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9400925972

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The philosophical study of technology has acquired only recently a voice in academic conversation. This situation is due, in part, to the fact that technology obviously impacts on "the real world," whereas the favored stereotype of philosophy allegedly does not. Furthermore, in some circles it was assumed that philosophy ought not impinge on the world. This bias continues today in the form of a general dismissal of the growing area now referred to as "applied philosophy". By contrast, the academic scrutiny of science has for the most part been accepted as legitimate for some 30 years, primarily because it has been conducted in a somewhat ethereal manner. This is, in part, because it was believed that, science being pure, one could think (even philosophically) about science without jeopardizing one's intellectual purity. Since World War II, however, practitioners of the metascientific arts have come to ac knowledge that science also shows signs of having touched down on numerous occasions in what can only be identified as the real world. No longer able to keep this banal truth a secret, purists have sought to defuse its import by stressing the difference between pure and applied science; and, lest science be tainted by contact with the world through its applications, they have devoted additional energy to separating applied science somehow from technology.


Racism After Apartheid

Racism After Apartheid

Author: Vishwas Satgar

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1776143086

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Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.