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Foreword - Leopold Kohr Prelude Part I: The ECU-28 Project: Horizontal Communication for Peasants' Participation and Self-Reliance 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Interlude (I) 3. Theoretical Interlude (II) 4. The Perception of Reality 5. In a World Apart 6. The Peasants Get Together 7. In a World of Our Own 8. Far Away and Long Ago Part II: The 'Tiradentes Project': Revitalization of Small Cities for Self-Reliance 9. Introduction 10. Theoretical Interlude (III) 11. Encounter with Reality 12. A Scheme for Action 13. The Action Starts 14. Navigation and Return Notes

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Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean-German economist and environmentalist. He is professor of ecological economics in the Southern University of Chile, and director of the Economics Institute there. His book Human Scale Development (1991) has been recognized by Cambridge University as one of the fifty most important texts in Sustainability.

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This book will have many readers among economists and politicians, as well as among the increasing number of people concerned with development and project design.
*Chronicle*

Written with passion, this book also inspires passion in the reader, above all because it views the problem of poverty from a new and more human angle.
*Development and Education Exchange Papers*

A clear break from the conventional approach to economics.
*West Africa*

A masterpiece. The three "theoretical interludes" are remarkable for their insight, originality and profundity.
*John Papworth, The Fourth World*

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