Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery
Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty, pollution and environmental degradation, ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local, national, and international economic order need renewal, and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an "economy of care" for the earth and its people.
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Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery
Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty, pollution and environmental degradation, ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local, national, and international economic order need renewal, and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an "economy of care" for the earth and its people.
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Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery

Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery

Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery

Beyond Poverty and Affluence: Toward an Economy of Care with a Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery

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Beyond Poverty and Affluence makes an urgent appeal for a bold new economic practice. In the face of distressing societal realities - poverty, pollution and environmental degradation, ongoing losses in both the quantity and the quality of work - eminent Dutch economists Bob Goudzwaard and Harry de Lange argue that the foundations of our local, national, and international economic order need renewal, and they provide a provocative twelve-step program for economic recovery based on an "economy of care" for the earth and its people.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802808271
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 07/10/2001
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

Table of Contents

Forewordvi
Prefaceix
1.Why Economic Renewal?1
2.Risky Calculations41
3.Reclaiming People and Their Needs65
4.Renewing Our Economic Order80
5.Revitalizing Our Outdated Economic Order98
6.Sustainable Development112
7.Answering the Objections120
8.A Twelve-Step Program for Economic Recovery134
Index162
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