Book ID: CBB001021297

Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid (2009)

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Rottenburg, Richard (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: [Weit hergeholte Fakten.] In English. Trans. Allison Brown and Tom Lampert
Physical Details: xxxvii + 235 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the techniques and technologies (primarily the complex reporting processes) that are used in the system designed to provide global development aid.


Reviewed By

Essay Review Wesley Shrum (May 2015) Development Aid: A New Course for STS. Science, Technology, and Human Values (pp. 445-455). unapi

Review Breyman, Steve (2010) Review of "Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 682). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Buckley, Eve E.
Camprubí, Lino
Hausman, William J.
Hertner, Peter
Hoffarth, Matthew J.
Jensen, Casper Bruun
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Engineering Studies
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press
Duke University Press
Harvard University Asia Center
MIT Press
Concepts
Globalization; internationalization
Economic development
Developing countries
Technology and economics
Cross-national interaction
Technology transfer
People
McClelland, David Clarence
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Hong Kong
Brazil
China
Germany
Russia
Institutions
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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