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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... ethical realities and considerations; and that any attempt to divorce economics from these considerations, as much orthodox analysis seeks to do, is likely to be seriously flawed in itself and be equally flawed in its recommendations ...
... ethical realities and considerations; and that any attempt to divorce economics from these considerations, as much orthodox analysis seeks to do, is likely to be seriously flawed in itself and be equally flawed in its recommendations ...
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... ethical concerns, with Geoff Hodgson exploring the role of institutions, Amitai Etzioni postulating a moral dimension and John Oliver Wilson discussing different forms of justice. Chapter 3 introduces the ecological dimension, with ...
... ethical concerns, with Geoff Hodgson exploring the role of institutions, Amitai Etzioni postulating a moral dimension and John Oliver Wilson discussing different forms of justice. Chapter 3 introduces the ecological dimension, with ...
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... ethical values as more conventional consumer preferences. Chapter 10 moves to consideration of the state, at the global, national and local levels: Paul Streeten spells out some of the implications of global interdependence; Geoff ...
... ethical values as more conventional consumer preferences. Chapter 10 moves to consideration of the state, at the global, national and local levels: Paul Streeten spells out some of the implications of global interdependence; Geoff ...
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... ethical, ecological and social concerns at least on a par with economic considerations. But we believe that such a multi-dimensional context is actually the only one in which an intellectually sound and practically relevant economics ...
... ethical, ecological and social concerns at least on a par with economic considerations. But we believe that such a multi-dimensional context is actually the only one in which an intellectually sound and practically relevant economics ...
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Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation Paul Ekins,Manfred A. Max-Neef No preview available - 1992 |
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