Author: Kenneth Ewart BouldingPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349175382
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. BouldingPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 9780791497234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Economics of Human Betterment is a comparative look at economic change and social progress. It is about betterment—a change or process—and about institutions and countries as they evolve. It is about human betterment—and therefore concerned with perceived welfare and the identification of basic human needs. And it is about economics, but about means as means, not means as ends. This book asks in what way productive activities (whether free market or planned, whether in developed or in developing countries) influence and reflect basic human values. The essays contained herein represent some of the best up-to-date accounts available on such topics as the welfare state in Holland or the relationship between growth and betterment in Singapore. Other essays take in the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and the planned economy of the Soviet Union. The contributors are all well-known experts in their own field. And their essays reveal a common conviction that economics is about people first, and about things only in so far as they contribute to human betterment.
The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth Ewart BouldingPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873959254
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Economics of Human Betterment is a comparative look at economic change and social progress. It is about betterment--a change or process--and about institutions and countries as they evolve. It is about human betterment--and therefore concerned with perceived welfare and the identification of basic human needs. And it is about economics, but about means as means, not means as ends. This book asks in what way productive activities (whether free market or planned, whether in developed or in developing countries) influence and reflect basic human values. The essays contained herein represent some of the best up-to-date accounts available on such topics as the welfare state in Holland or the relationship between growth and betterment in Singapore. Other essays take in the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and the planned economy of the Soviet Union. The contributors are all well-known experts in their own field. And their essays reveal a common conviction that economics is about people first, and about things only in so far as they contribute to human betterment.
The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. BouldingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333363751
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333363768
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth Ewart BouldingPublisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. BouldingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333363751
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. BouldingPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780803924185
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this highly personal work, Boulding traces his lifelong search for human betterment. Believing that human betterment required certain economic changes, he studied economics as an undergraduate at Oxford. A careful examination of the American labour movement, however, convinced him that 'economics alone could not solve the problems of human betterment.' Boulding's later involvement in the study of conflict resolution and the analysis of world culture eventually led him to evolutionary theory, which has occupied much of his time and energy since the late 1960s.
Political Economy of Economic Policy
Author: Wilfred L. DavidPublisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0275930157
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
David takes as his point of departure the orthodox rational paradigm of public policy-making--which, he argues, does not adequately reflect real-world process--to present an integrated model for economic policy formulation and execution. By juxtaposing the theoretical foundations of the rationalist model with insights drawn from alternative systems of political economy, he shows how economic decisionmaking is both more complex and less idealistic than the rational paradigm assumes. In constructing his argument, David systematically integrates ideas drawn from moral philosophy, politics, sociology, systems theory, institutional and neo-Marxian economic thought, and international dimensions of poitical economy. He suggests a reorientation of theory and analysis based on an approach emphasizing the role of values, conflicts, power, and divergent interests in the decisionmaking process. Focusing throughout on questions raised by the rationalist model, David builds his analysis around issues such as: the validity of the dominant theories of public economic decision-making; the logical vis-a-vis ideological foundations of economic policy postulates; the extent to which decisions can be made more responsive to values pertaining to human development.
Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. BouldingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608027890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Humanomics
Author: Vernon L. SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199379
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life. Shows how to re-humanize the study of economics in the twenty-first century by integrating Adam Smith's two great books into contemporary empirical analysis.