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Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge provides a unique basis to contrast and compare the plethora of theories of, and policies for, economic property, environmental sustainability and social progress.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cole, Ken, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
Environmental economics.
Economic development.
Économie de l'environnement.
Développement économique.
economic development.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Economic development
Environmental economics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: what can we know about the world?
  • The scientific parameters of social existence
  • Economy
  • The economy
  • The consumer as economic dynamic: the subjective preference theory of value
  • The producer as economic dynamic: the cost-of-production theory of value
  • The citizen as economic dynamic: the abstract labour theory of value
  • Environment
  • Environment
  • The environment as a source of pleasure: egocentrism
  • The environment as a productive resource: ecocentrism
  • The environment and social evolution: sociocentrism
  • Development
  • Development
  • Development as the fulfillment of individuals' potentials: modernization
  • Development as fulfilling the technical potentials of cooperation: structuralism
  • Development as the fulfillment of people's social potentials: class struggle
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge
  • What? Identifying events: positivism
  • How? Explaining systems: paradigms
  • Why? Understanding processes: praxis
  • Intellectual panorama, ideological vision, and political view
  • Epilogue: what do we know about the world?

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