Real-life economics : understanding wealth creation / edited by Paul Ekins and Manfred Max-Neef.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ekins, Paul.

Max-Neef, Manfred A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Economic development--Sociological aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Economics, knowledge and reality; 2 Economy, society and ethics; 3 Economy and ecology; 4 Living economics in perspective; 5 Seeing the whole economy; 6 Progress and development; 7 Human needs and aspirations; 8 Indicators of development; 9 Markets, ethics and competition; 10 Three levels of state action; 11 Direct provision in the social economy; 12 Achieving sustainability; Conclusion; Appendix: contacts and addresses; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-450) and index.

ISBN:

9786610567119

9781134896103

1134896107

9781134896110

1134896115

9781280567117

1280567112

9780203012796

0203012798

OCLC:

437080222