Real Life EconomicsPaul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef The past fifty years have witnessed the triumph of an industrial development that has engendered great social and environmental costs. Conventional economics has too often either ignored these costs or failed to analyse them appropriately. This book constructs a framework within which the wider impacts of economic activity can be both understood and ameliorated. The framework places its emphasis on an in-depth understanding of real-life processes rather than on mathematical formalism, sressing the independence of the economy with the social, ecological and ethical dimensions of human life. |
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... concept ofsustainable livelihood securitywhich isclearly related to needsatisfaction. Chapter 8 considers indicatorsrelevant to themodelof wealth creation and theconcepts ofprogress and developmentwhich flowfrom it.An indicator ...
... concept ofsustainable livelihood securitywhich isclearly related to needsatisfaction. Chapter 8 considers indicatorsrelevant to themodelof wealth creation and theconcepts ofprogress and developmentwhich flowfrom it.An indicator ...
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... concept of sustainability canbe made operational. For thisbrief overview it is clear that this book ranges over a most ambitiously wide terrain. Inevitably its coverageof the ground is uneven. Some issues are explored in considerable ...
... concept of sustainability canbe made operational. For thisbrief overview it is clear that this book ranges over a most ambitiously wide terrain. Inevitably its coverageof the ground is uneven. Some issues are explored in considerable ...
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... the endsare capable ofbeing distinguished in order of importance' (ibid.:14). Itis presumed herethatthis ordering takes place with a view to increasing human welfare. The'real world', however, isnowhere near as simple a concept asit 1 ...
... the endsare capable ofbeing distinguished in order of importance' (ibid.:14). Itis presumed herethatthis ordering takes place with a view to increasing human welfare. The'real world', however, isnowhere near as simple a concept asit 1 ...
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... concept asit sounds.Itis actually experienced by different groups of people in radicallydifferent ways, to the extentthat one mightnot know from their descriptions of it that they were talking about the same'world'at all. Anthropologist ...
... concept asit sounds.Itis actually experienced by different groups of people in radicallydifferent ways, to the extentthat one mightnot know from their descriptions of it that they were talking about the same'world'at all. Anthropologist ...
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... seemed only to be thinking of crowds, stands andbaskets; there isno mention of 'market shares','price fluctuations'or 'equilibrium'. His concept of 'market' has practically nothing todowiththe familiar concept of today; betweenthen.
... seemed only to be thinking of crowds, stands andbaskets; there isno mention of 'market shares','price fluctuations'or 'equilibrium'. His concept of 'market' has practically nothing todowiththe familiar concept of today; betweenthen.
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Other editions - View all
Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation Paul Ekins,Manfred A. Max-Neef No preview available - 1992 |
Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation Paul Ekins,Manfred A. Max-Neef No preview available - 1992 |
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