Environmental protection and economic well-being : the economic pursuit of quality
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Bibliographic Information
Environmental protection and economic well-being : the economic pursuit of quality
M.E. Sharpe, c1996
2nd ed
- : pbk
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Rev. ed. of: The economic pursuit of quality. c1988
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text takes issue with the notion that economic well-being of people derives only from quantitatively expanding commercial business activity. It argues that economic qualities flow from the natural and social environment, and that they are public, not private, in character.
Table of Contents
- chapterOne The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic
- chapterTwo The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care
- chapterThree The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics
- chapterFour The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting
- chapterFive Profaning the Sacred? Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment
- chapterSix Beauty and the Beast: Quantitative Evidence on the Economic Importance of Environmental Quality
- chapterSeven The Economic Base: Distracting Vision, Distorting Reality
- chapterEight Economic Growth and Local Economic Well-Being
- chapterNine The Self-Defeating Strategies of Quantitative Growth
- chapterTen The Local Pursuit of Quality: A "Can't-Lose" Economic-Development Strategy
- chapterEleven Grander Visions, Grander Problems
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