Economy-environment-development-knowledge / / Ken Cole

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815365103321
• Autore: Cole Ken
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• ISBN: 1-134-71592-7; 1-280-33426-6; 0-203-17018-0; 1-134-71593-5; 0-203-01512-6; 9786610334261
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmental economics; Economic development
• 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 (p. [273]-296) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: what can we know about the world?; The scientific parameters of social existence; Economy; The economy; The consumer as economic dynamic: the subjective preference theory of value; The producer as economic dynamic: the cost-of-production theory of value; The citizen as economic dynamic: the abstract labour theory of value; Environment; Environment; The environment as a source of pleasure: egocentrism; The environment as a productive resource: ecocentrism; The environment and social evolution: sociocentrism; Development; Development; Development as the fulfilment of individuals' potentials: modernizationDevelopment as fulfilling the technical potentials of cooperation: structuralism; Development as the fulfilment of people's social potentials: class struggle; Knowledge; Knowledge; What? Identifying events: positivism; How? Explaining systems: paradigms; Why? Understanding processes: praxis; Intellectual panorama, ideological vision, and political view; Epilogue: what do we know about the world?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As we approach the end of the second millennium, we find ourselves in times of radical social change. Orthodox explanations of the economy, the environment and the development process are unable to provide coherent policies for such issues as employment creation, environmental degradation and social progress.Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge provides alternative perspectives on these fundamental aspects of human existence. Economists, environmentalists, and development theorists have so far been unable to agree on the most successful prescriptions to address problems. T