The Perverse Economy : The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment / by Michael Perelman

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Perelman, Michael, 1939- [aut]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerLink Bücher | Springer eBook Collection Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection | Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003Description: Online-Ressource (224 p, online resource)ISBN:

9781403980267

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Additional physical formats: 9781403970879 | Erscheint auch als: 978-1-4039-7087-9 Druck-Ausgabe | Printed edition: 9781403970879 DDC classification:

330.1
330.9 23

LOC classification:

HB1-846.8

DOI: DOI: 10.1057/9781403980267Online resources:

Summary: The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the least advantaged labourers. From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has short-changed the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed views of scarcity and extraction. Perelman will show 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 capabilities and nature itselfPPN: PPN: 1657487873Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-PEO | ZDB-2-PEF | ZDB-2-SXEF | ZDB-2-SEB

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