Real-life economics : understanding wealth creation

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Real-life economics : understanding wealth creation

edited by Paul Ekins and Manfred Max-Neef

Routledge, 1992

  • : hard
  • : pbk.

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Real life economics

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780415079761

Description

Since the end of the Second World War, industrial economic activity has been generated on an unparalleled scale. This continuous search for yet greater output and productivity has been the dominant policy objective of practically every country in the world for the past 50 years. However, there is a cost for industrial growth on this scale and the price has been and is being paid in widespread social and cultural disruption and potentially catastrophic effects on the global environment. "Real Life Economics" challenges traditional economic theories which endorse this state of affairs and attempts to construct an economic framework with which to address the wider implications of the industrial economy, in order to understand and ameliorate it. This framework is designed to illuminate and offer guidance about practical matters of an economic nature in the real world. "Real Life Economics" remains recognizably economic in nature, incorporating many of the means and concepts from a variety of today's schools of economic thought. This book should be of interest to introductory students of economics, environmental and development studies.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Conceptualizing the economy
  • economics, knowledge and reality
  • four-dimensional cultural space
  • seeing the whole economy. Part 2 Making people better off: progress and development
  • indicators of wealth
  • balancing the mechanisms.
Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780415079778

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Contributors:Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge
  • Alejandro Sanz de Santamaria, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • Wolfgang Sachs, Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen
  • Geoffrey Hodgson, Polytechnic of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • John Oliver Wilson, University of California
  • Roefie Hueting, Central Bureau of Statistics, The Hague
  • David Pearce, University College, London
  • Richard Norgaard, University of California
  • Mark Lutz, University of Maine
  • Jane Wheelock, Sunderland Polytechnic
  • Orio Giarini, Graduate Institute of European Studies, Geneva
  • Anisur Rahman, International Labour Office, Geneva
  • Mario Kamenetzky, World Bank (retired)
  • Manfred Max-Neef, Development Alternatives Centre, Santiago
  • Robert Chambers, University of Sussex
  • Oyvind Lone, Ministry of the Environment, Oslo
  • Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont, Free University of Brussels
  • Ian Miles, University of Sussex
  • Peter Soderbaum, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • Mitchel Abolafia, Cornell University, USA
  • Nicole Biggart, University of California
  • Paul Ekins, Birkbeck College, London
  • Paul Streeten, Boston University, USA
  • Geoffrey Mulgan, Polytechnic of Central London
  • Hilary Wainwright, University of Manchester
  • Severyn Bruyn, Boston College, USA

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