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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... policy makers can understand and use. We have tried to do that here by looking at the way the world works through the lens of the new economics, and finding there some bizarre questions that seem to fly in 2 THE NEW ECONOMICS.
... policy makers can understand and use. We have tried to do that here by looking at the way the world works through the lens of the new economics, and finding there some bizarre questions that seem to fly in 2 THE NEW ECONOMICS.
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... policy makers worldwide on the problems that lie behind these activities. As we write, the minds of most policy makers are obsessed with how to return to what they might call 'business as usual', but the sheer intractability of that ...
... policy makers worldwide on the problems that lie behind these activities. As we write, the minds of most policy makers are obsessed with how to return to what they might call 'business as usual', but the sheer intractability of that ...
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... policy makers. 'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are ... rule the world. And the brand of economics they use is open to the following criticisms: It. ignores. the. planet.
... policy makers. 'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are ... rule the world. And the brand of economics they use is open to the following criticisms: It. ignores. the. planet.
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... policy makers and old-fashioned economists find it bizarrely difficult to distinguish between these – perhaps because highly centralized nations listen only to their Treasuries, and they get the money either way. But this is another ...
... policy makers and old-fashioned economists find it bizarrely difficult to distinguish between these – perhaps because highly centralized nations listen only to their Treasuries, and they get the money either way. But this is another ...
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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