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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... Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. Heis alsoCo Chair of the Berkeley Forum onEthics andInternational Businessand Chief Economist forBank of America in San Francisco. Acknowledgements In any edited book, theeditors'
... Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. Heis alsoCo Chair of the Berkeley Forum onEthics andInternational Businessand Chief Economist forBank of America in San Francisco. Acknowledgements In any edited book, theeditors'
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... economists and other social and natural scientists whoare interested infostering the development of a new schoolof economic thought which recognizes as an axiom that all economic activity and behaviour is profoundly influenced by ...
... economists and other social and natural scientists whoare interested infostering the development of a new schoolof economic thought which recognizes as an axiom that all economic activity and behaviour is profoundly influenced by ...
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... economists exert amajor influence on decision making,they have aresponsibility tothose whose lives they affect ... economist andthe place and purposeof economics: Wolfgang Sachsargues for economics to be keptin its placeasa servantof ...
... economists exert amajor influence on decision making,they have aresponsibility tothose whose lives they affect ... economist andthe place and purposeof economics: Wolfgang Sachsargues for economics to be keptin its placeasa servantof ...
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... developed intoa recognizable school of economicthought andbe taught to economists as such. We do notimagine that the neoclassical mainstream willeasily assentto becominga mere subset ofan approach that puts ethical, ecological and.
... developed intoa recognizable school of economicthought andbe taught to economists as such. We do notimagine that the neoclassical mainstream willeasily assentto becominga mere subset ofan approach that puts ethical, ecological and.
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... economists in the realworld; an appropriate intellectual methodology for economists to employin investigating reality. The view of the subjectmatter of economics to be adopted in this bookis not controversial.Itis basedonLionel Robbins ...
... economists in the realworld; an appropriate intellectual methodology for economists to employin investigating reality. The view of the subjectmatter of economics to be adopted in this bookis not controversial.Itis basedonLionel Robbins ...
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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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