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"A towering achievement. It outdoes Sen and Hirshman in its reach across economics, management theory, psychology, sociology, mathematics and philosophy. The result is a coherent alternative 'way of seeing' the relationship between aid organizations based in rich countries and aid recipients based in poorer ones, and some practical suggestions
on how to re-engage the aid agencies more as 'helpers' than as 'doers'. Along the way it fairly sizzles with insider insights into the workings of the World Bank."
---Robert Hunter Wade, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
"Ellerman provides a compelling humanist understanding of how economic development aid can succeed, if only people and nations are enabled to help themselves."
--- William Greider author, The Soul of Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help that is ultimately unhelpful by overriding or undercutting the capacity of people to help themselves, David Ellerman argues that the best strategy for development is a drastic reduction in development assistance. The locus of initiative can then shift from the would-be helpers to the doers (recipients) of development. Ellerman presents various methods for shifting initiative that are indirect, enabling and autonomy-respecting. Eight representative figures in the fields of education, community organization, economic development, psychotherapy and management theory Albert Hirschman, Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and Søren Kierkegaard demonstrate how the major themes of assisting autonomy among people are essentially the same.
David Ellerman is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Economics Department at the University of California at Riverside.
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David P. Ellerman is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Riverside.
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"A towering achievement. It outdoes Sen and Hirschman in its reach across economics, management theory, psychology, sociology, mathematics and philosophy. The result is a coherent alternative "way of seeing" the relationship between aid organizations based in rich countries and aid recipients based in poorer ones, and some practical suggestions on how to re-engage the aid agencies more as "helpers" than as "doers". Along the way it fairly sizzles with insider insights into the workings of the World Bank." - Robert Hunter Wade, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics "Ellerman provides a compelling humanist understanding of how economic development aid can succeed, if only people and nations are enabled to help themselves." - William Greider, author of The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy"
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Helping People Help Themselves : From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development
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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword by Albert O. Hirschman. Preface. 1. Introduction and overview. 2. Internal and external motivation beyond Homo Economics. 3. The indirect approach. 4. Indirect approaches intellectual history. 5. Autonomy respecting development assistance. 6. Knowledge based development assistance. 7. Can development agencies learn and help clients learn. 8. Case study assistance to the transition countries. 9. Hirschmanian themes of social learning and change. 10. Conclusions. Appendix. Eight thinkers on the five themes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Helping People Help Themselves grew out of David Ellerman's ten years at the World Bank and particularly out of his three years as advisor and speechwriter for Joseph Stiglitz during Stiglitz's tumultuous term as the Bank's Chief Economist. The book provides a structural critique of the world bank's approach to development assistance but the main purpose is to lay the intellectual foundations for an alternative approach. The book takes a broad interdisciplinary approach drawing from educational theory management theory community organizing psychology and philosophy. While many thinkers are discussed there is a focus on eight individuals who have wrestled with the fundamental conundrum of giving external help that promotes (rather than thwarts) self help. These include Albert Hirschman John Dewey Paulo Freire E.F. Schumacher Douglas McGregor Carl Rogers Saul Alinsky and Soren Kierkegaard. Helping People Help Themselves might be considered the companion volume focusing on the world bank to Stiglitz's Globalization and its discontents which focused on the IMF. 334 pp. Seller Inventory # 61419
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