Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good

Smith, Philip B., Max-Neef, Manfred

ISBN 10: 1900322706 / ISBN 13: 9781900322706

Editore: UIT Cambridge Ltd., 2011

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• Titolo: Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good
• Editore: UIT Cambridge Ltd.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1900322706
• ISBN 13: 9781900322706
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

A cogent critique of the dominant economic system, showing that the theoretical constructions of mainstream economics work mainly to bring about injustice.

Informazioni sugli autori

Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean-German economist in the field of international development. His key works are From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in 'Barefoot Economics' and Human Scale Development, the latter declared by the University of Cambridge as one of the 50 most important books on sustainability. He taught in Berkeley in the early 1960s and was visiting professor in several US, Latin American and European universities. He also worked for several UN agencies, and between 1994 and 2002 was Vice-Chancellor of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia. In 1983 he received the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize). He holds honorary doctorates from Jordan, Colombia, Argentina and the US, and has been the recipient of the University Award of Highest Honour from Japan. He is the Director of the Economics Institute of the Universidad Austral de Chile.

Philip Bartlett Smith was an American-Dutch experimental physicist and writer who after his retirement devoted himself to studying economic theories, environment and energy, and world poverty. He was co-author of The World at the Crossroads and the editor of Dimensions of Sustainability. Philip passed away on December 15, 2005.