Overview

In this prodigiously researched book, Emanuel Adler addresses the hotly contested issue of how developing nations can emerge from the economic and technological tutelage of the developed world. Is the dependence of Third World countries on multinational corporations—especially in the realm of high technology—a permanent fixture of an inherently unequal relationship? Or can it be managed by the developing nations for their benefit? By a masterful comparative study of the development of science and technology in Argentina and Brazil, the author discusses governmental policies that are effective in attaining autonomous technological development. Professor Adler provides a useful corrective to the structural theories of development that have up to now prevailed in the study of international relations by demonstrating that intellectual and technological elites play a far more significant role in the success or failure of such governmental policies than has hitherto been recognized. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Author:   Emanuel Adler
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520301160

ISBN 10:   0520301161
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   20 April 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Tables List of Figures Acronyms Acknowledgments 1 Introduction The Problem The Case Studies Ideology and Change: Are Ideologies Real? The Idea and Ideology of Progress Catalytic Interdependence Political Science and Historical Processes: Toward Integration 2 Domestic and International Choices Science, Technology, and Modernization Science and Technology for Development: Domestic Choices Interdependence and Self-Reliance: International Choices 3 Three Strategies for Managing Science and Technology Goals, Means, Information, and the State Strategies and Ideologies Technological Laissez-Faire Structural and Pragmatic Antidependency 4 The Policy-Making Process and the ""Subversive Elites"" Science and Technology Policy Making The ""Weathermakers"": Intellectuals and Political Action Egalitarian-Nationalist Weathermakers in Latin America The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas 5 Argentina's Science and Technology Policy, 1966-1982 Two Ways to Travel Argentina's Science and Technology Policy Goals Means Management of Knowledge and Information Role of the State 6 Ideology and Policy Making: Fracasomania Technological Laissez-Faire The Quest for Technological Self-Determination From Pragmatic Antidependency to Chaos Erasing the Peronists' Legacy Summary and Conclusions 7 Science and Technology in Brazil, 1962-1982 Brazil's Pragmatic Antidependency Science and Technology Strategy Goals Means Management of Knowledge and Information Role of the State 8 An Image of the Future Takes Hold Ideological Background: Ideas, Sources, and Carriers The Evolution of an Idea Policy Continuity: Seizing Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles 9 Argentina's Aborted Venture into Computers in the Mid-1970s Electronics and the Computer Market FATE Electronics and the National Computer That Never Was 10 Brazil's Domestic Computer Industry The Data-Processing Market, 1970-1982 Development of the Brazilian Computer Industry The Pragmatic Antidependency Guerrillas at Work The Multinational Corporations in an Ideologically Charged Context Conclusions 11 The Quest for Nuclear Autonomy in Argentina and Brazil Argentina: Success Brazil: Less Than Success Conclusion Notes List of Interviews Index"

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Emanuel Adler is the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.  

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