The Economies of Small: Appropriate Technology in a Changing World

Describes the origins and development of the appropriate technology movement, and analyses both its changing concerns at the different stages of development, and also its abiding emphasis on scale and human values.

Raphael Kaplinsky is the author of numerous books on technology, industrialization, and globalization. These include studies on globalization, industrial policy, industrial organization, global value chains, the international automobile sector, computer-integrated automation, computer aided design, the impact of microelectronics on employment, and on appropriate technology.