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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... effects on the global environment. This book challenges traditional economic theories which have promoted this situation and constructs an economic framework within which it can be both understood and ameliorated. This framework is ...
... effects on the global environment. This book challenges traditional economic theories which have promoted this situation and constructs an economic framework within which it can be both understood and ameliorated. This framework is ...
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... effects. Chapter 6 explores the genesis and nature of 'development' as a concept. Wolfgang Sachs sees it as a mono-dimensional, hegemonistic, economistic redefinition of human purpose, which institutionalizes poverty. Lutz interprets it ...
... effects. Chapter 6 explores the genesis and nature of 'development' as a concept. Wolfgang Sachs sees it as a mono-dimensional, hegemonistic, economistic redefinition of human purpose, which institutionalizes poverty. Lutz interprets it ...
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... effect of each and every step forward in this back-and-forth process, the conceptual framework was further developed ... effects that the knowledge production process you are involved in will have on the community. How was I to design a ...
... effect of each and every step forward in this back-and-forth process, the conceptual framework was further developed ... effects that the knowledge production process you are involved in will have on the community. How was I to design a ...
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... effects that the knowledge I was to produce would have (or would not have) on the community over time. In other words, my responsibilities as a 'development economist' comprised the political problem (in the broadest sense of the ...
... effects that the knowledge I was to produce would have (or would not have) on the community over time. In other words, my responsibilities as a 'development economist' comprised the political problem (in the broadest sense of the ...
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... effects of what he somewhere else describes as the 'universal' intellectual's work (see Foucault 1980), and in the second he is describing the effects of what he calls the 'specific' intellectual's work. One of the conditions of ...
... effects of what he somewhere else describes as the 'universal' intellectual's work (see Foucault 1980), and in the second he is describing the effects of what he calls the 'specific' intellectual's work. One of the conditions of ...
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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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