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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785262003321

Autore

Lessem Ronnie

Titolo

Integral economics [[electronic resource] ] : releasing the economic genius of your society / / Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Gower Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-315-58892-7

1-317-11557-0

1-317-11556-2

1-282-78572-9

9786612785726

0-566-09248-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Transformation and innovation series

Altri autori (Persone)

SchiefferAlexander

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Economics

Social policy

Sustainable development - Social aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Re-inventing economics : starting the journey -- Revisiting mainstream economics -- The moral economic core -- The centered enterprise -- Economic commons : philosophical grounding of the self-sufficient economy -- Grassroots economics -- Subsistence economics -- The social business -- Co-evolutionary economics : philosophical grounding of the developmental economy -- Conscious economics : contextual emergence of the developmental economy -- Associative economics -- The developmental enterprise -- Economics of the common good -- Social learning and the network economy -- Open economics : theoretical navigation of the social economy -- The cooperative enterprise -- New economics -- Real economics -- Well-being economics -- The sustainable enterprise.

Sommario/riassunto

There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse



economic approaches from all over the globe. They do so by introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue to produce an integral, dynamically balanced approach. They argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new econom