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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... approach, Real-Life Economics remains recognisably economic in nature, incorporating many of the means and concepts from a variety of the schools of thought (including the neoclassical) which constitute the economics discipline today ...
... approach, Real-Life Economics remains recognisably economic in nature, incorporating many of the means and concepts from a variety of the schools of thought (including the neoclassical) which constitute the economics discipline today ...
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... approach to socio-economic development by Mark Lutz People's self-development by Anisur Rahman 7 Human needs and aspirations The economics of the satisfaction of needs by Mario Kamenetzky Development and human needs by Manfred Max-Neef ...
... approach to socio-economic development by Mark Lutz People's self-development by Anisur Rahman 7 Human needs and aspirations The economics of the satisfaction of needs by Mario Kamenetzky Development and human needs by Manfred Max-Neef ...
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... approach. Paul Streeten is Director of the World Development Institute at Boston University. He has also been Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. His ...
... approach. Paul Streeten is Director of the World Development Institute at Boston University. He has also been Warden of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. His ...
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... approach to economics, whether or not this comes to be called a 'living economics' or a recognizable school of thought by any other name, that the scholars and activists of the Living Economy Network have come together. Apart from the ...
... approach to economics, whether or not this comes to be called a 'living economics' or a recognizable school of thought by any other name, that the scholars and activists of the Living Economy Network have come together. Apart from the ...
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... approach seemed appropriate for an economic perspective that makes no claim to be value-free and which deals with ... approaches and concerns of this book, and then briefly reviews some of the other broadly compatible intellectual and ...
... approach seemed appropriate for an economic perspective that makes no claim to be value-free and which deals with ... approaches and concerns of this book, and then briefly reviews some of the other broadly compatible intellectual and ...
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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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