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UNINA9910456574703321 |
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Martin Richard <1939-, > |
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Development, poverty, and politics : putting communities in the driver's seat / / Richard Martin and Ashna Mathema ; foreword by John F.C. Turner |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-17739-2 |
1-135-17740-6 |
1-282-97460-2 |
9786612974601 |
0-203-86208-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Routledge studies in development and society ; ; 23 |
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MathemaAshna |
TurnerJohn F. C |
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Community development, Urban - Developing countries |
Economic development - Citizen participation |
Urban poor - Developing countries |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Boxes; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1 Righteous Indignation: The War on Poverty; 2 How the Other Half Lives: Slums and Informality; 3 What Lies Beneath: A View from the Inside; 4 Policy and Practice: The Missing Link; 5 The Legal Framework: Oppression or Defiance?; Part II; 6 Constructive Engagement: Structuring Participation; 7 Crossing the Great Divide: Negotiation and Consensus Building; 8 Barefoot Professionals: A New Breed of Experts; 9 Fair Trade: Where Economics and Finance Make a Difference |
10 Who Did What?: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Corruption11 New Ways of Working; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Top down . . . bottom up . . . what works? This book explores development from theperspective of the poor. Who are they? What lives |
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do they live? What matters tothem? And most importantly, what can they do about it?Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown environment, and how governments can work with them. How do communitiesand conditions drive behavior? What interventions are appropriate and how can weapproach development imaginatively?This is not about usurping governance - but revisiting structures that the develo |
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UNINA9910457459503321 |
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Autore |
Yagi Kiichirō <1947-, > |
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Austrian and German economic thought : from subjectivism to social evolution / / Kiichiro Yagi |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-283-44128-4 |
9786613441287 |
0-203-83076-8 |
1-136-82461-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Routledge studies in the history of economics |
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Austrian school of economics |
Evolutionary economics |
Economists - Austria |
Economists - Germany |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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General introduction -- Portrait of an Austrian liberal : Max Menger's liberal position -- Carl Menger as journalist and tutor of Crown Prince -- Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the making -- Carl Menger and historicism in German economics -- Anonymous history in Austrian economic thought -- Alternative equilibrium vision in Austrian economics -- Karl Knies, Max Weber, and Austrians : a Heidelberg connection -- Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's |
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economic sociology : the origin of social evolution -- Evolutionist turn of the Marx-Weber problem. |
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This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world. It explores the intellectual tension in the social science in Austria and Germany in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It deals with how the emergence of the new school (Austrian School) changed the focus of social science in the German speaking world, and how it prepared the introduction of an evolutionary perspective in economics, politics, and sociology. Based on (mostly hitherto unknown) primary evidence, this development is lively described in a series of encounters and decisions by |
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