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"Si les outils ne sont pas dès maintenant soumis à un contrôle politique, la coopération des bureaucrates du bien-être et des bureaucrates de l'idéologie nous fera crever de "bonheur". La liberté et la dignité de l'être humain continueront à se dégrader, ainsi s'établira un asservissement sans précédent de l'homme à son outil." Dénonçant la servitude née du productivisme, le gigantisme des outils, le culte de la croissance et de la réussite matérielle, Ivan Illich oppose à la "menace d'une apocalypse technocratique" la "vision d'une société conviviale". Ce n'est que par la redécouverte de l'espace du bien-vivre et de la sobriété qu'Illich appelait la convivialité, que les sociétés s'humaniseront.

Sociology --- Economic development - Social aspects --- Industries - Social aspects

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In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: ""...to name those acts of competence, lust or concern that we want to defend from measurement by Chicago Boys or Socialist Commissars...the preparation of food and the shaping of language, childbirth and recreation, without implying ei

Economic anthropology. --- Economic development -- Social aspects. --- Subsistence economy.

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This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study, the author emphasises trustworthiness as a vital feature of social capital and argues that standard economic treatments of this phenomenon are inadequate. The book's richer evolutionary treatment of this is embedded in a neoclassical model and will prove to be essential reading for economic development scholars as well as those interested in development studies and economic thought in general.

Social capital (Sociology) --- Economic development --- Capital, Social (Sociology) --- Sociology --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Economic development - Social aspects. --- Economic development - Social aspects

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Economic development. --- Economic development --- Social aspects. --- Economic development - Social aspects. --- Economic development - Case studies.

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In this ground-breaking book, Trebeck and Williams challenge us to make ourselves at home with economic wealth, to ensure that everyone is included. They explore the possibility of 'Arrival', urging us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all.

Economic development --- Equality --- Social aspects --- Economic order --- Business cycles --- E-books --- Economic development - Social aspects