Daly, Herman E.
Contents: Economics as an academic discipline -- The fallacy of misplaced concreteness in economics and other disciplines -- Misplaced concreteness: the market -- Misplaced concreteness: measuring economic success -- Misplaced concreteness: homo economicus -- Misplaced concreteness: land -- New beginnings -- From academic discipline to thought in service of community -- From chrematistics to Oikonomia --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 DALGreer, John Michael.
Summary: John Michael Greer rethinks economics, focusing on ecological rather than political concepts, and discussing how an economy centered around the raw materials that support human life can help the world achieve a more sustainable way of life and address concerns over resource depletion and pollution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 GRESachs, Jeffrey.
Summary: Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015