The knowledge economy and socialism : science and society in Cuba /

""Cuba's future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists," Fidel Castro proclaimed in 1960. As Agustín Lage Dávila shows in this pathbreaking book, Cuba has in fact become a global leader in both the generation and application of scientific knowledge-as demonstrated by its...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Lage Dávila, Agustín, 1949- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
الإسبانية
منشور في: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2024]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.25968830
الوصف
الملخص:""Cuba's future must, by necessity, be a future of scientists," Fidel Castro proclaimed in 1960. As Agustín Lage Dávila shows in this pathbreaking book, Cuba has in fact become a global leader in both the generation and application of scientific knowledge-as demonstrated by its ubiquitous production of socially useful products, from vaccines and medicines, to organic food. Speaking from his position as a noted Cuban immunologist, Dr. Lage shows how Cuba achieved such prominence, positing that the training of its scientists, their scientific practices, and their relationships with the Cuban people are intimately connected to the socialist culture that derived from the Cuban Revolution"--
وصف المادة:Originally published in 2013 in Spanish as: La economía del conocimiento y el socialismo.
وصف مادي:1 online resource
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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