The Economics Of Human Betterment

Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791497234
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Human Betterment written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873959254
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Human Betterment written by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333363751
Total Pages : pages
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Author : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333363768
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333363751
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Kenneth Ewart Boulding
Publisher : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Human Betterment written by Kenneth Ewart Boulding and published by Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803924185
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book Human Betterment written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wilfred L. David
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275930157
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economy of Economic Policy written by Wilfred L. David and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Vernon L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199379
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanomics written by Vernon L. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000304094
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Optimum Utilization Of Knowledge written by Kenneth E. Boulding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have more knowledge than we use; even so, say the editors of this book, ignorance often governs our actions. Society continues to find ways to misuse knowledge–from manipulating information to gain political power to restricting what ideas are explored on university campuses. Thus, when some of the best minds in the country met to focus on the optimum utilization of knowledge, it was not an idle academic inquiry. In these proceedings from that conference, which was sponsored by the Academy of Independent Scholars, the contributors examine several of the key aspects of learning: the importance of knowledge in decision making, the role of our educational system and other systems in producing and disseminating knowledge, and the relationship between knowledge and the physiological, psychological, and cultural bases of the learning process. The misuse of knowledge–or the overuse of ignorance–the authors note, could threaten the existence of the entire planet, if the kind of thinking exemplified by the nuclear arms race prevails.