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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... basic principles by Mark Lutz PART II ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT 5 Seeing the whole economy The household in the total economy by Jane Wheelock The modern economy as a service economy: the production of utilization ...
... basic principles by Mark Lutz PART II ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT 5 Seeing the whole economy The household in the total economy by Jane Wheelock The modern economy as a service economy: the production of utilization ...
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... basic concepts were chosen, the in-depth fieldwork was carried out in a back-and-forth process between the data collection and the analysis of the collected information: the information collected in each visit would be carefully ...
... basic concepts were chosen, the in-depth fieldwork was carried out in a back-and-forth process between the data collection and the analysis of the collected information: the information collected in each visit would be carefully ...
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... basic concepts I had selected to construct this knowledge, these abstract concepts could not possibly provide an operational framework to make the minute but critical decisions on how to phrase the questions, on which questions to ...
... basic concepts I had selected to construct this knowledge, these abstract concepts could not possibly provide an operational framework to make the minute but critical decisions on how to phrase the questions, on which questions to ...
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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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