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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (484 p.)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Economic development; Economics; Economics - Sociological aspects; Economic Theory; Business & Economics
• Altri autori: EkinsPaul Max-NeefManfred A
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Real-life economics
• ISBN: 1-134-89610-7; 1-134-89611-5; 1-280-56711-2; 9786610567119; 0-203-01279-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820643503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II