Towards an other development (In French)Eric Berr () Cahiers du GRES from Groupement de Recherches Economiques et Sociales Abstract: Starting from a definition of the concept of development centered on the satisfaction of the essential needs, health, education, feeding, we show that the present pattern of development, while trying to impose Western values all over the world, prevents developing countries from building their future and, on the contrary, maintains them under the domination of Occidental countries. If the liberalism carried out during the twenty last years accelerated the merchandization of the world, capitalist system in its mondialized version has to be re-examined. Maximum profit research, primacy of private economic values, competition and technical progress must be questioned. The other development wants, starting from the current situation, to take the measurement of the essential changes that we must implement as quickly as possible. Thus, in order to replace humans at the center of economic system, we have to grant a more important place to the non-commercial activities and the non-monetary relations, like gift, which implies to reconsider the unlimited growth target and to define a new measurement of wealth. We will be able to avoid the ecological disaster announced only by reintroducing ethical and moral values and by adopting with respect to technical progress a principle of reason. Keywords: Capitalism; Development; Globalization; Decrease (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:grs:wpegrs:2004-27 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Cahiers du GRES from Groupement de Recherches Economiques et Sociales |
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