{"product_id":"developing-to-scale-9780226828633","title":"Developing to Scale","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first critical book on appropriate technology, Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions.     In 1973, economist E. F. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful, which introduced a mainstream audience to his theory of appropriate technology: the belief that international development projects in the Global South were most sustainable when they were small-scale, decentralized, and balanced between the traditional and the modern. His theory gained widespread appeal, as cuts to the foreign aid budget, the national interests of nations seeking greater independence, postcolonial activism, and the rise of the United States' tech sector drove stakeholders across public and private institutions toward cheaper tools. In the ensuing decades, US foreign assistance shifted away from massive modernization projects, such as water treatment facilities, toward point-of-use technologies like village water pumps an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The concept of ‘appropriate technology,’ Janus-faced, has been used both to inspire and to prevent technological assistance to people in resource-poor communities. Morefield’s \u003ci\u003eDeveloping to Scale\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating and surprising global history of the origins of the idea and its far-reaching influence on international health and development worldwide. Who should decide what technology is right for whom? What social systems do technologies require to succeed? These questions remain vitally important today.” -- David S. Jones, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e“With engaging prose and illuminating detail, \u003ci\u003eDeveloping to Scale\u003c\/i\u003e provides a crucial history of appropriate technology in international aid. Anyone nursing a clever fix to improve the world should first read this book.”    -- Peter Redfield, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e“The first comprehensive history of advocacy for ‘appropriate technology’ for global health, \u003ci\u003eDeveloping to Scale\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fresh analytical route into understanding the enduring enthusiasm for cheap technological fixes for fundamental problems of global health inequalities. With an extraordinary combination of scholarly rigor and narrative lucidity, the book works across scales to provide a careful account of key individuals, groups, and encounters, while also illuminating anew the broader social and technological field of global health in an era of emerging postcolonial aspirations and complexly intertwining neoliberal endeavors.” -- Anne Pollock, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Buddhist Economics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Small Is Beautiful\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Networking Development\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Carrots and Sticks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Visions of the Future\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: The Silver Bullet Boys\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven: Bantu Technology\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight: Scaling Up\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: COVID-19\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932342103,"sku":"9780226828633","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828633.jpg?v=1719999002","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/developing-to-scale-9780226828633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}