ABSTRACT
The past fifty years have witnessed the triumph of an industrial development that has engendered great social and environmental costs. Conventional economics has too often either ignored these costs or failed to analyse them appropriately. This book constructs a framework within which the wider impacts of economic activity can be both understood and ameliorated. The framework places its emphasis on an in-depth understanding of real-life processes rather than on mathematical formalism, sressing the independence of the economy with the social, ecological and ethical dimensions of human life.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter
Introduction
part I|120 pages
On The Nature Of The Economy And Economic Science
chapter 1|36 pages
Economics, Knowledge And Reality
chapter 2|21 pages
Economy, Society And Ethics
chapter 3|29 pages
Economy And Ecology
chapter 4|32 pages
Living Economics In Perspective
part II|190 pages
On Economic Activity, Progress And Development
chapter 5|33 pages
Seeing The Whole Economy
chapter 6|25 pages
Progress And Development
chapter 7|50 pages
Human Needs And Aspirations
chapter 8|80 pages
Indicators Of Development
part III|112 pages
On The Mechanisms Of Economic Policy