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Quantifying Sustainable Development
Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics. As of the fall of 1998, however, the economies of many tropical countries have contracted severely, and the enthusiasm of the developing tropics for the free market and all of its ancillary policies is decidedly cooler. Have our traditional approaches to economics been failing the developing world? This interdisciplinary book covers the conditions of the developing tropics, the resistanc...
Making World Development Work
"The authors reexamine world development - usually the province of economists - as professionals trained in the natural sciences. They show how we have and might use tested scientific and technical procedures and concepts, as well as science itself, to achieve much better results than what has been characteristic of the past. Leclerc and Hall contend that to scholars with a scientific background, the process of development, and the economic logic behind it, often look almost surrealistic. The basic question at the foundation of this review is this: Why should something so important as world development, something capable of absorbing such vast sums of money and of human goodwill, something that impacts the people and the environment so much, continue to be organized and planned using economic techniques and theories that are both unconfirmed experimentally and proven to have led to development failures?"--BOOK JACKET.
Turrialba en la mirada de los viajeros
Este libro explora la región de Turrialba, ubicada en la vertiente del Caribe y parte de la provincia de Cartago en Costa Rica. Rodeada de montañas y dominada por un volcán, esta área cuenta con un valle húmedo atravesado por numerosos ríos que desembocan en el río Reventazón. La historia de Turrialba está marcada por su importancia como conexión entre Costa Rica y Europa, lo que ha dado lugar a intentos de construir caminos desde el Valle Central hasta la costa caribeña. El caserío de Turrialba ha sido un punto de descanso crucial en estos viajes, y a lo largo de los años ha sido visitado por numerosos viajeros y cronistas, cuyos relatos detallados sobre el volcán, la naturaleza y los habitantes originales se presentan en este libro.
