Economic Development and Environmental Protection
Economic Pursuit of Quality
2nd Edition
Published on 20. May 2015
272 pages
978-1-317-47261-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text takes issue with the notion that economic well-being of people derives only from quantitatively expanding commercial business activity. It argues that economic qualities flow from the natural and social environment, and that they are public, not private, in character.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliography, index
File size
11,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-47261-2 (9781317472612)
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05/1996
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05/1996
2nd Edition
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Person
Power, Thomas Michael
Content
chapterOne The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic; chapterTwo The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care; chapterThree The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics; chapterFour The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting; chapterFive Profaning the Sacred? Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment; chapterSix Beauty and the Beast: Quantitative Evidence on the Economic Importance of Environmental Quality; chapterSeven The Economic Base: Distracting Vision, Distorting Reality; chapterEight Economic Growth and Local Economic Well-Being; chapterNine The Self-Defeating Strategies of Quantitative Growth; chapterTen The Local Pursuit of Quality: A "Can't-Lose" Economic-Development Strategy; chapterEleven Grander Visions, Grander Problems;
