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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... 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 Etzioni Socio-economic justice by John Oliver Wilson 3 Economy and ecology The ...
... 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 Etzioni Socio-economic justice by John Oliver Wilson 3 Economy and ecology The ...
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... stylized. facts†. Tony Lawson A realist approach to analysis In the context of a scientific activity such as economic analysis (scientific) realism asserts the existence of the objects of research as independent of the enquiry of which ...
... stylized. facts†. Tony Lawson A realist approach to analysis In the context of a scientific activity such as economic analysis (scientific) realism asserts the existence of the objects of research as independent of the enquiry of which ...
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... stylized facts So far it has been argued that, on the realist view, tendencies may be regarded as powers or ... stylized facts'. On this view, then, a stylized fact is a conceptualized phenomenon – typically a broad but not universal ...
... stylized facts So far it has been argued that, on the realist view, tendencies may be regarded as powers or ... stylized facts'. On this view, then, a stylized fact is a conceptualized phenomenon – typically a broad but not universal ...
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... facts', once identified, can give rise to search for causal explanations. The significance of the notion of a stylized fact in this framework, then, is that it may often provide a starting point for the analysis of enduring structures ...
... facts', once identified, can give rise to search for causal explanations. The significance of the notion of a stylized fact in this framework, then, is that it may often provide a starting point for the analysis of enduring structures ...
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... stylized facts may indeed provide a useful point of entry for analysis. The observation that claims about social phenomena are stylized does not, in itself, indicate capricious or suspect intent on the part of the conceptualizer ...
... stylized facts may indeed provide a useful point of entry for analysis. The observation that claims about social phenomena are stylized does not, in itself, indicate capricious or suspect intent on the part of the conceptualizer ...
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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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