Real Life Economics: Understanding Wealth Creation

ISBN-13: 9780415079778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 482 str.

Paul Ekins; Manfred Max-Neef; Paul Ekins

Opis

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.

Recenzje

`On the whole, the book achieves a remarkable degree of clarity given its many voices and the range of issues discussed. ... Through careful editing and well-structured passages that interpret the contributions of the various authors, the leaders of this effort paint a picture of what economics might become as it grows beyond today's conventions.' - Ecological Economics Vol 8 1993

`The essential guide to the new thinking in economics, especially in sustainable development. An invaluable collection.' - Mr P J O'Brien, Glasgow Univ

`... this contribution to new economic thinking is a must for all serious students of economics and social science.' - Turning Point 2000

`...the best overview of green economics that I have seen anywhere.' - Robert Gilman, In Context

`...contains many points of value' - New Statesman and Society

`A powerful statement of an important new economic perspective' - Oxfam

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef