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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... growth in 'downshifting', in everyone from architects to economists learning from nature, of people deliberately earning less to have a better life. This new economics is based on a different framework: it recognizes a different ...
... growth in 'downshifting', in everyone from architects to economists learning from nature, of people deliberately earning less to have a better life. This new economics is based on a different framework: it recognizes a different ...
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... growth economy. As a result, the year 2005 was the hottest year ever. Carbon dioxide is at its highest level in the atmosphere for the last 2 million years, predominantly driven by industrial and human use of fossil fuels: the ...
... growth economy. As a result, the year 2005 was the hottest year ever. Carbon dioxide is at its highest level in the atmosphere for the last 2 million years, predominantly driven by industrial and human use of fossil fuels: the ...
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... growth in recent decades, around 1 billion people are going to bed chronically malnourished every night and 30,0 00 children are dying every day of preventable diseases. Behind those statistics lie individual stories of human tragedy ...
... growth in recent decades, around 1 billion people are going to bed chronically malnourished every night and 30,0 00 children are dying every day of preventable diseases. Behind those statistics lie individual stories of human tragedy ...
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A Bigger Picture Andrew Simms, David Boyle. high growth economics does not necessarily produce greater well-being even for those who benefit financially. *** Major change tends to emerge with the aid of economic catastrophe, though that ...
A Bigger Picture Andrew Simms, David Boyle. high growth economics does not necessarily produce greater well-being even for those who benefit financially. *** Major change tends to emerge with the aid of economic catastrophe, though that ...
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... growth measure success badly as a result. The GDP is the money value of all the goods and services produced and exchanged in the nation in a year: it is the cornerstone of conventional economic success. Yet it is actually a means and ...
... growth measure success badly as a result. The GDP is the money value of all the goods and services produced and exchanged in the nation in a year: it is the cornerstone of conventional economic success. Yet it is actually a means and ...
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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