Manfred Max Neef Biography

Artur Manfred Max Neef (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmamfɾeð ˈmaks]; born 26 October 1932) is a Chilean economist of German descent, Max Neef was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He started his career as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s. He is known for his taxonomy of fundamental human needs and human scale development.