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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... structure (urban, rural, age groups, etc.), on the most important crops grown in the region and the different labour processes practised to cultivate each one of them (amount of labour times required, constitutive tasks of these labour ...
... structure (urban, rural, age groups, etc.), on the most important crops grown in the region and the different labour processes practised to cultivate each one of them (amount of labour times required, constitutive tasks of these labour ...
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... structure of the questionnaire had to be defined by means of the basic concepts I had selected to construct this knowledge, these abstract concepts could not possibly provide an operational framework to make the minute but critical ...
... structure of the questionnaire had to be defined by means of the basic concepts I had selected to construct this knowledge, these abstract concepts could not possibly provide an operational framework to make the minute but critical ...
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... structures exist and that the truth status of relevant theories can be determined, and yet which argue that theories useful for predictive purposes – including theories acknowledged to be false – are all that is required. Indeed in the ...
... structures exist and that the truth status of relevant theories can be determined, and yet which argue that theories useful for predictive purposes – including theories acknowledged to be false – are all that is required. Indeed in the ...
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... structures that lie behind and actually govern the flux of observed phenomena. The object is to construct explanations for (i.e. to produce knowledge of the mechanisms that generate or govern) some observed phenomenon of interest. If ...
... structures that lie behind and actually govern the flux of observed phenomena. The object is to construct explanations for (i.e. to produce knowledge of the mechanisms that generate or govern) some observed phenomenon of interest. If ...
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... structures, or constitutions, or, more generally, natures. In other words, a given thing will have the power or disposition to act in a certain way by virtue of being the sort of thing it is. Often we will have knowledge only of causal ...
... structures, or constitutions, or, more generally, natures. In other words, a given thing will have the power or disposition to act in a certain way by virtue of being the sort of thing it is. Often we will have knowledge only of causal ...
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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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