Manfred Max-Neef

Manfred A. Max - Neef ( born October 16, 1932 in Valparaiso ) is a Chilean economist of German origin.

Max - Neef studied at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago de Chile ); he earned degrees in industrial engineering, a master's degree in development economics and graduated from the state exam in economics.

He then worked for the oil company Shell. In 1957, he turned away from the industry and from the problems of the poor in the Third World. He worked for UN agencies and taught at various universities in the U.S. (including University of California, Berkeley ) and Latin America. In 1981, he founded the organization CEPAUR (Centro de Estudio y Série de Asuntos Urbano ). In 1993 he ran for President of Chile, reaching 5.55% in fourth. Today he is a professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (Chile), which he was Rector from 1993 to 2001.

Inspired by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, he developed theories to a barefoot economics.

Overdevelopment

Max - Neef sees the fundamental human needs to be of crucial importance for a development on a human scale (1986/1990): He postulated that development refers to people ( rather than things ) that an indicator of the qualitative growth of people whose quality of life is that depended on the means to meet their basic needs.

In the 1990s, Max - Neef formulated his hypothesis of the tipping point the insight that from a certain point of economic development was declining to the quality of human life.

Since May 2007, he is also an official council member of the World Future Council and advocates for the rights of future generations.

Honors

  • Right Livelihood Award ( 1983)
  • Doctor in Economics hc, University of Jordan
  • University Award of Highest Honour, Soka University, Japan
  • National Prize for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, Chile

Memberships

  • Club of Rome (until 2003 Active Member since Honorary Member)
  • European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • New York Academy of Sciences
  • Leopold Kohr Academy of the association Tauriska
  • E. F. Schumacher Society
  • World Future Council

Works (selection)

  • En torno a una del desarrollo Sociología. Univ. Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima 1965
  • Desarrollo a escala humana. Una opción para el futuro. CEPAUR, Santiago de Chile; Dag Hammarskjöldstiftelsen, Uppsala 1986
  • Together with Antonio Elizalde and Martín Hopenhayn: development on a human scale. An option for the future. Translated from Spanish by Norbert Rehrmann and Horst Steigler. CEPAUR, Santiago de Chile; Gesamthochschulbibl. , Kassel 1990 ( development prospects, 39)
  • From the outside looking in. Experiences in " barefoot economics". Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1992 ( pdf)
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