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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... political democracy by Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria Abstraction, tendencies and stylized facts by Tony Lawson 2 Economy, society and ethics Rationality and the influence of institutions by Geoff Hodgson The I & We paradigm by Amitai ...
... political democracy by Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria Abstraction, tendencies and stylized facts by Tony Lawson 2 Economy, society and ethics Rationality and the influence of institutions by Geoff Hodgson The I & We paradigm by Amitai ...
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... Political Economy. His recent books include Economics and Institutions (Polity, Cambridge, 1988); After Marx and Sraffa (Macmillan, London, 1991) and Rethinking Economics (co-editor with Ernesto Screpanti, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991) ...
... Political Economy. His recent books include Economics and Institutions (Polity, Cambridge, 1988); After Marx and Sraffa (Macmillan, London, 1991) and Rethinking Economics (co-editor with Ernesto Screpanti, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1991) ...
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... political economy'. And Smith became the theoretician of a society governed by the rules of the market. Alternatives to the economy? The transformation of society into a political economy was, of course, only achieved after a prolonged ...
... political economy'. And Smith became the theoretician of a society governed by the rules of the market. Alternatives to the economy? The transformation of society into a political economy was, of course, only achieved after a prolonged ...
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... political. democracy. Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria In their book Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (1984), Prigogine and Stengers make the following two statements: One of the problems of our time is to overcome attitudes ...
... political. democracy. Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria In their book Order out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (1984), Prigogine and Stengers make the following two statements: One of the problems of our time is to overcome attitudes ...
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... political, religious and military authorities and – were interviewed at length; (3) a survey, that had to be ... (politics) and on my idea of the role of an academic researcher in economics in the context of the relationship between ...
... political, religious and military authorities and – were interviewed at length; (3) a survey, that had to be ... (politics) and on my idea of the role of an academic researcher in economics in the context of the relationship between ...
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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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