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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... impact 12.1 Implications of broad and narrow definitions of sustainable development 12.2 Production statistics for North Sea oil, 1976–89 12.3 Cumulative capital funds from North sea oil under different assumptions 108 116 206 208 208 ...
... impact 12.1 Implications of broad and narrow definitions of sustainable development 12.2 Production statistics for North Sea oil, 1976–89 12.3 Cumulative capital funds from North sea oil under different assumptions 108 116 206 208 208 ...
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... impact on business and the economy. Tony Lawson is a lecturer in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, the University of Cambridge. Øyvind Lone works in the Department for Organisation and Environmental Economics at the ...
... impact on business and the economy. Tony Lawson is a lecturer in economics at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, the University of Cambridge. Øyvind Lone works in the Department for Organisation and Environmental Economics at the ...
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... impact on those people whose lives are ordered by a different rationality. Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria here gives an autobiographical account of how he felt impelled to change the whole basis of his practical methodology. Economic.
... impact on those people whose lives are ordered by a different rationality. Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria here gives an autobiographical account of how he felt impelled to change the whole basis of his practical methodology. Economic.
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... impact of a government economic development programme, which in 1984 had been under way in the region for eight years. A central feature of these two experiences was that the knowledges and recommendations I had to produce had to be ...
... impact of a government economic development programme, which in 1984 had been under way in the region for eight years. A central feature of these two experiences was that the knowledges and recommendations I had to produce had to be ...
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... impact and, therefore, to conceive and practice alternative ways to produce and use economic knowledge. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part I will reconstruct the experience of the first project to show the kind of ...
... impact and, therefore, to conceive and practice alternative ways to produce and use economic knowledge. The paper is divided into three parts. In the first part I will reconstruct the experience of the first project to show the kind 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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