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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783189203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-89610-7

1-134-89611-5

1-280-56711-2

9786610567119

0-203-01279-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (484 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EkinsPaul

Max-NeefManfred A

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economic development

Economics

Economics - Sociological aspects

Economic Theory

Business & Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.