The perverse economy : The impact of markets on people and the environment

From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has shortchanged the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed views of scarcity and extraction. Perelman shows how this approach has produced a discipline in which its followers' models and representations of th...

ver descrição completa

Na minha lista:
Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Perelman, Michael
Formato: Livro
Idioma:Undetermined
Publicado em: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2003
Assuntos:
Tags: Adicionar Tag
Sem tags, seja o primeiro a adicionar uma tag!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
Descrição
Resumo:From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has shortchanged the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed views of scarcity and extraction. Perelman shows how this approach has produced a discipline in which its followers' models and representations of the world around them are so removed from reality that continuing to abide by them would jeopardize both human capacities and nature itself.