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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... Poverty and Resources (Sage, London and New Delhi, 1990) and Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia (co-author with A. Hussain et al., Oxford University Press, Oxford and Karachi, 1992 forthcoming). Helen Wilkinson ...
... Poverty and Resources (Sage, London and New Delhi, 1990) and Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia (co-author with A. Hussain et al., Oxford University Press, Oxford and Karachi, 1992 forthcoming). Helen Wilkinson ...
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... poverty and household production, and is therefore responsible for much flawed policy advice; and second, that the many constructive, potentially complementary, alternative proposals on these and other issues, some originating in the ...
... poverty and household production, and is therefore responsible for much flawed policy advice; and second, that the many constructive, potentially complementary, alternative proposals on these and other issues, some originating in the ...
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... 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 Introduction xix.
... 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 Introduction xix.
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Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef. redefinition of human purpose, which institutionalizes poverty. Lutz interprets it in the light of humanistic economics. Rahman gives a creativist, participatory perspective. In both of these latter views ...
Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef. redefinition of human purpose, which institutionalizes poverty. Lutz interprets it in the light of humanistic economics. Rahman gives a creativist, participatory perspective. In both of these latter views ...
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