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Environmental protection and economic well-being : the economic pursuit of quality /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxfordshire [England] ; New York, New York :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the Original Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic; 1. The Misdefinition of Economics; 2. The Power of Economics; 3. The Distribution of the Power of Economics; 4. The Historical Origins of the Power of Economics; 5. Rejecting the Equation of Economics with Markets and Business; 6. An Accurate and Adequate Definition of Economics; 7. The Role of Quality and Subjective Judgment in Economics.
- 8. When Is Quality Economic? Market and Nonmarket Pursuits of Quality9. How We Look at the Local Economy: The ""Economic Base"" as a Distracting Vision; 10. A Broader Vision of the Economic Base: Local Quality; 11. Does It Matter Anyway? The Policy Implications of This Alternative Vision; Chapter Two: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care; 1. Introduction: Necessity and Quality in Economics; 2. The Economic Pursuit of Quality: An Impressionistic Overview; 3. Food as a Necessity in Our Economy.
- 4. Subjective Preferences and the Pursuit of Quality in Medical CareChapter Three: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics; 1. Protection from the Elements: Clothing Expenditures and the Pursuit of Necessity; 2. Necessary Housing Expenditures; 3. Necessary Survival Expenditures: A Summary; 4. Survival and Necessity in More Primitive Societies; 5. The Dominance of the Subjective and the Qualitative in Determining Economic Productivity; 6. Our Perceptions of Economic Necessity and Survival; 7. Conclusions.
- Chapter Four: The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting1. Introduction; 2. Commercial versus Noncommercial Economic Activity; 3. The Private Economic Pursuit of Environmental Quality; 4. The Absence of Information and Control; 5. Measuring the Value of Environmental Qualities; Chapter Five: Profaning the Sacred? Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment; 1. An Intrusion of the Commercial Mentality or the Development of Social Rationality?; 2. What Is an ""Economic Value""?; 3. The Dangers of Economic Valuation.
- Chapter Six: Beauty and the Beast: Quantitative Evidence on the Economic Importance of Environmental Quality1. Introduction; 2. Beauty: The Economic Value of Visual Quality; 3. The Beast: The Economic Cost of Sickness. Crime, and Death; 4. Conclusion; Chapter Seven: The Economic Base: Distracting Vision, Distorting Reality; 1. Economic Development and the Pursuit of Quality; 2. Simplifying Economic Reality; 3. The Economic Base: An Overview; 4. An Approach as Old as Economics; 5. The Economic-Base Model; 6. Local Economic Development versus Export Growth.