Development and planning/ translated by Peter Fawcett

In this book the author sets out his agenda for an alternative approach to development and planning. Assessing recent thinking as rigid and technocratic, he claims a central role for a renovated and committed form of planning in the formulation of anti-crisis strategies.

At the heart of the author's thought stands a plea for a political and anthropological approach to economics, and assessment of quality as well as quantity in economic calculation. The book provides a critique of current assumptions, and delineates a new conceptual framework involving ecodevelopment, developmental timespaces and a redefinition of working lifestyles. Drawing upon his experience of planning in both Europe and the Third World, the author sets out a programme for the future based on human creativity at the local level, and sensitive resource management. This book will be of interest to development economists and their students, and to those interested in planned economics and alternative approaches to economics.