Environmental protection and economic well-being : the economic pursuit of quality / Thomas Michael Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Thomas M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

xv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Economic pursuit of quality

Place of Publication:

Armonk, NY ; London : M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Contents:

I The Power and Mystique of Economics

Sharing the power, Eliminating the Magic

II The Dominance of Quality in economic Pursuits

Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care

III The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits

Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics

IV The Economic Pursuit of Quality in the Noncommercial Setting

V Profaning the Sacred?

Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment

VI Beauty and the Beast

Quantitative Evidence on the Economic

Importance of Environmental Quality

VII The Economic Growth and Local Economic Well-Being

IX The Self-Defeating Strategies of Quantitative Growth

X The Local Pursuit of Quality

A Can't-Lose Economic Development Strategy

XI Grander Visions, Grander Problems.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The economic pursuit of quality. c1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.

ISBN:

1563247348

1563247356

OCLC:

34113873