The living economy : a new economics in the making / / edited by Paul Ekins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808593003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London ], : Routledge, 2017
• ISBN: 1-134-95567-7; 1-134-95568-5; 0-429-22924-0; 1-280-11082-1; 0-203-28536-0; 0-203-16906-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (418 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EkinsPaul
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetti: Economic development; Economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Collection of papers from The Other Economic Summit (TOES).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""BOOK COVER""; ""HALF-TITLE""; ""TITLE""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FIGURES AND TABLES""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART ONE The need for a new economics""; ""PART TWO Putting people first""; ""1 A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE""; ""â€?HUMAN-SCALE ECONOMICS: THE CHALLENGES AHEADâ€?""; ""Basic ideas, hypotheses and intuitions""; ""(a) Micro-macro articulation""; ""(b) The invisible sector""; ""(c) The concept of human needs""; ""(d) The concept of poverty""; ""(e) Critical systems size""; ""(f) The aim of self-reliance""; ""(g) Ecological constraints""""(h) The question of indicators""; ""NOTES""; ""2 A QUESTION OF NEEDS""; ""â€?NEEDS AND COMMODITIESâ€?""; ""VALUES, GOALS AND MOTIVATIONS""; ""Self-Explorers""; ""Social Resisters ""; ""Experimentalists""; ""Conspicuous Consumers ""; ""Belongers""; ""Survivors""; ""Aimless""; ""â€?HUMAN NEED AND STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGEâ€?""; ""Basic individual and societal needs""; ""Optimising basic need satisfaction and human ; liberation""; ""Social and ecological conditions for human liberation""; ""NOTES""; ""3 THE NATURE OF WORK""; ""â€?WHAT COMES AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT?â€?""""Introduction""; ""Three possible futures for work""; ""A new policy approach""; ""Some attributes of work: a review""; ""Work as a dependent activity""; ""Work as activity under remote control""; ""Work as specialised activity""; ""Work as instrumental activity""; ""Work as formal activity""; ""Work as masculine activity""; ""Work as exclusive activity""; ""The implications for economics""; ""NOTES""; ""4 IN SEARCH OF SELF-RELIANCE""; ""â€?TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SELF-RELIANCEâ€?""; ""On the economics of self-reliance""""On the economics of global interdependence""; ""Self-reliance and global interdependence: a balance sheet""; ""NOTES""; ""5 HEALTH is WEALTH""; ""â€?THE MISMATCH BETWEEN HEALTH AND ECONOMICSâ€?""; ""Health and economic growth""; ""Health as an economic minus""; ""Sickness as an economic plus""; ""Limits to conventional health policies""; ""The economic/social divide""; ""Health, lifestyles and living conditions""; ""Third World""; ""Health needs, human needs""; ""Secure work and a useful role in society""; ""Dependency/self-reliance""; ""â€?DEMEDICALIZATION AND POSSIBILITIES FOR HEALTHâ€?""""NOTES""; ""6 INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS""; ""RESOURCE ACCOUNTING""; ""â€?FROM GROSS TO ADJUSTED NATIONAL PRODUCTâ€?""; ""The concept and classification of defensive expenditures""; ""The move from Gross National Product to Adjusted National Product""; ""â€?HEALTH-BASED INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESSâ€?""; ""Infant mortality rate""; ""Life expectancy""; ""Health expectancy""; ""Coherence""; ""â€?SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR POPULAR PLANNINGâ€?""; ""Background""; ""The social indicator movement""; ""From social indicators to a satisfaction index?""