TY  - GEN
AU  - de Rivero, Oswaldo
TI  - The myth of development : : non-viable economies of the 21st century 
SN  - 9789710325108
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic development
N1  - Includes index; Introduction -- The twilight of the nation-state -- Quasi nation states -- Perforated sovereignties -- Powerless powers -- Surrogate power -- Global empowerment and national impoverishment -- The new global aristoracy -- The supranational clergy -- The international third estate -- International Darwinism -- From Adam Smith to Charles Darwin -- The global jungle -- Adjustment without modernisation -- Deproletarianisation -- Dematerialisation -- The search for El Dorado -- Thinking the unthinkable -- Non-viable national economies -- Non-development -- Worldwide depredation -- Treatment as a different species -- Ungovernable chaotic entities (UCEs) -- Peace enforcement and intensive care -- Survival -- The decisive factors -- Food -- Water -- Energy -- Population stability -- Strategic advantage -- The pact for survival
N2  - This book asks readers to be politically realistic about what is happening to the overwhelming majority of people in Third World countries. With three exceptions (Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan), development has not come. A myriad of people in feeble infant-states have been born - children of self-determination, but not of economic and scientific progress. State-driven, communist, and neo-liberal development models have failed most of these people. The large majority of Third World countries are only mistakenly called "developing." They are not actually in the process of becoming Newly Industrialized Countries (NIC's), but Non-Viable National Economies (NNE's). This book explores the option of replacing the wealth of nations agenda with a survival of nations agenda. In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations
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