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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Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef. Tables. 4.1 Humanistic economics in a changing world 4.2 Comparison of a 'conventional' economics and ecology with ecological economics 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Inhibiting satisfiers 7.5 Singular satisfiers 7.6 ...
Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef. Tables. 4.1 Humanistic economics in a changing world 4.2 Comparison of a 'conventional' economics and ecology with ecological economics 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Inhibiting satisfiers 7.5 Singular satisfiers 7.6 ...
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... economic thought which recognizes as an axiom that all economic activity and behaviour is profoundly influenced by ecological, social and ethical realities and considerations; and that any attempt to divorce economics from these ...
... economic thought which recognizes as an axiom that all economic activity and behaviour is profoundly influenced by ecological, social and ethical realities and considerations; and that any attempt to divorce economics from these ...
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... socioeconomics; from ecological economics and the concern with sustainability; from an emphasis on development, including economic development, as a creative and participatory process; and from a perception of the economy that ...
... socioeconomics; from ecological economics and the concern with sustainability; from an emphasis on development, including economic development, as a creative and participatory process; and from a perception of the economy that ...
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... economic, social, ethical and ecological – all of which need to feature in social scientific analysis according to their relative importance in the situation in question. Chapter 4, with Mark Lutz, introduces humanistic economics, which ...
... economic, social, ethical and ecological – all of which need to feature in social scientific analysis according to their relative importance in the situation in question. Chapter 4, with Mark Lutz, introduces humanistic economics, which ...
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... ecological and social context. Finally in this chapter, Peter Söderbaum changes the focus from the macro to the micro level and adapts some of the chapter's ideas for use in that context, specifically suggesting positional analysis as ...
... ecological and social context. Finally in this chapter, Peter Söderbaum changes the focus from the macro to the micro level and adapts some of the chapter's ideas for use in that context, specifically suggesting positional analysis as ...
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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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