The New Economics: A Bigger PictureRoutledge, 16 set 2009 - 208 pagine Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that real wealth can be measured by increased well-being and environmental sustainability rather than just having and consuming more things. This book is the first accessible and straightforward guide to the new economics. It describes the problems and bizarre contradictions in conventional economics as well as the principles of the emerging new economics, and it tells the real-world stories of how new economics is being successfully put into practice around the world. An essential guide to understanding new economics for all those who care about making economics work for people and planet. |
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... corporate success. When 12 million people in Europe are involved in some way in downshifting – earning less money for greater well-being – then you know the mainstream, which demands we should constantly accelerate our earning and ...
... corporate success. When 12 million people in Europe are involved in some way in downshifting – earning less money for greater well-being – then you know the mainstream, which demands we should constantly accelerate our earning and ...
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... corporations. This has been described as the 'neoliberal' agenda, though there is nothing very new and certainly ... corporate globalization. It has a more fundamental critique at its heart, about the distance between money and real ...
... corporations. This has been described as the 'neoliberal' agenda, though there is nothing very new and certainly ... corporate globalization. It has a more fundamental critique at its heart, about the distance between money and real ...
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... corporate monopolists, subsidised by tax paid by poor people in rich countries. It colludes with short-termism Most democratic systems are highly short term, based on a short electoral cycle, which encourages politicians to trade long ...
... corporate monopolists, subsidised by tax paid by poor people in rich countries. It colludes with short-termism Most democratic systems are highly short term, based on a short electoral cycle, which encourages politicians to trade long ...
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... corporations. Policy regards people simply as passive consumers of goods or services, which are 'delivered' to them by service providers. Energy consumption is profitable under this narrow interpretation of economics, but energy ...
... corporations. Policy regards people simply as passive consumers of goods or services, which are 'delivered' to them by service providers. Energy consumption is profitable under this narrow interpretation of economics, but energy ...
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... run the casinos that other businesses become uneconomic. Speculating with money has so many rewards, which is why so many previously productive corporations have hived off their production and remain 14 THE NEW ECONOMICS.
... run the casinos that other businesses become uneconomic. Speculating with money has so many rewards, which is why so many previously productive corporations have hived off their production and remain 14 THE NEW ECONOMICS.
Sommario
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Why Did an Apparently Poor Pacific Island Hit the Top of the Happy Planet Index? | 31 |
Why did China Pay for the Iraq War? | 49 |
Why has London Traffic Always Travelled at 12mph? | 65 |
Why do Modern Britons Work Harder than Medieval Peasants? | 77 |
Why are Cuban Mechanics the Best in the World? | 95 |
Why Does Britain Import the Same Number of Chocolate Waffles as it Exports? | 109 |
Why do Fewer People Vote when there is a WalMart Nearby? | 123 |
Why are Malawi Villagers Paying the Mortgages of Surbiton Stockbrokers? | 135 |
11 The Future | 151 |
From the Ashes of the Crash 20 First Steps from New Economics to Rebuild a Better Economy | 161 |
New Economics Tools and Techniques | 173 |
Index | 181 |
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Andrew Simms Ann Pettifor aspects assets assumptions basic billion cent century Chapter circulation cities classical economics Co-production companies complementary currencies conventional economics core economy corporations cost create crisis currencies David Boyle debt developing countries E. F. Schumacher ecological Ecological Debt economic system Economics Foundation economists effect emerging energy environmental ethical example farmers financial system fossil fuels global growth Happy Planet Index Herman Daly human idea impact income increasingly infrastructure institutions interdependence investment Jane Jacobs John Maynard Keynes Keynes kind lives loans London look mainstream markets massive means measure mortgages neighbourhood ofthe paid people’s policy makers poorest poverty problem programme public services recycling reduce rise Schumacher sector social capital spending sub-prime success supermarkets sustainable trade underpin Vanuatu wealth well-being World Bank