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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... organization of capitalism in both North America and Asia. Her book Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America (University of Chicago Press) was published in 1989. Severyn Bruyn is Professor at the Department of ...
... organization of capitalism in both North America and Asia. Her book Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America (University of Chicago Press) was published in 1989. Severyn Bruyn is Professor at the Department of ...
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... organization of gender. Her publications include: A Taste of Power (co-editor with Hilary Wainwright, Verso, London, 1987); Development Policy and Public Action (co-editor with M. Wuyts and T. Hewitt, Oxford University Press, Oxford ...
... organization of gender. Her publications include: A Taste of Power (co-editor with Hilary Wainwright, Verso, London, 1987); Development Policy and Public Action (co-editor with M. Wuyts and T. Hewitt, Oxford University Press, Oxford ...
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... organizational strands within the economics discipline. By comparison with these, the book's distinctive position is clarified and is given a name: Living Economics. Part II is about the nature of economic activity, progress and ...
... organizational strands within the economics discipline. By comparison with these, the book's distinctive position is clarified and is given a name: Living Economics. Part II is about the nature of economic activity, progress and ...
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... organization', to design a rule of abstraction, that would allow me to determine what specific empirical information to look for in the interviews and the survey, and to use this information to construct my 'story' about the rural ...
... organization', to design a rule of abstraction, that would allow me to determine what specific empirical information to look for in the interviews and the survey, and to use this information to construct my 'story' about the rural ...
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Real-life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation Paul Ekins,Manfred A. Max-Neef No preview available - 1992 |
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