Economic Development and Environmental Protection : Economic Pursuit of Quality.
Thomas Michael. Power
Bok Engelsk 1996 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (268 pages)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Power and Mystique of Economics: Sharing the Power, Eliminating the Magic -- 1. The Misdefinition of Economics -- 2. The Power of Economics -- 3. The Distribution of the Power of Economics -- 4. The Historical Origins of the Power of Economics -- 5. Rejecting the Equation of Economics with Markets and Business -- 6. An Accurate and Adequate Definition of Economics -- 7. The Role of Quality and Subjective Judgment in Economics -- 8. When Is Quality Economic? Market and Nonmarket Pursuits of Quality -- 9. How We Look at the Local Economy: The "Economic Base" as a Distracting Vision -- 10. A Broader Vision of the Economic Base: Local Quality -- 11. Does It Matter Anyway? The Policy Implications of This Alternative Vision -- Chapter Two: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits: Survival Needs, Food, and Health Care -- 1. Introduction: Necessity and Quality in Economics -- 2. The Economic Pursuit of Quality: An Impressionistic Overview -- 3. Food as a Necessity in Our Economy -- 4. Subjective Preferences and the Pursuit of Quality in Medical Care -- Chapter Three: The Dominance of Quality in Economic Pursuits, Continued: Clothing, Housing, and Stone Age Economics -- 1. Protection from the Elements: Clothing Expenditures and the Pursuit of Necessity -- 2. Necessary Housing Expenditures -- 3. Necessary Survival Expenditures: A Summary -- 4. Survival and Necessity in More Primitive Societies -- 5. The Dominance of the Subjective and the Qualitative in Determining Economic Productivity -- 6. Our Perceptions of Economic Necessity and Survival -- 7. Conclusions -- Chapter Four: The Economic Pursuit of Quality in a Noncommercial Setting -- 1. Introduction.. - 2. Commercial versus Noncommercial Economic Activity -- 3. The Private Economic Pursuit of Environmental Quality -- 4. The Absence of Information and Control -- 5. Measuring the Value of Environmental Qualities -- Chapter Five: Profaning the Sacred? Economic Valuation of the Natural Environment -- 1. An Intrusion of the Commercial Mentality or the Development of Social Rationality? -- 2. What Is an "Economic Value"? -- 3. The Dangers of Economic Valuation -- Chapter Six: Beauty and the Beast: Quantitative Evidence on the Economic Importance of Environmental Quality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beauty: The Economic Value of Visual Quality -- 3. The Beast: The Economic Cost of Sickness. Crime, and Death -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter Seven: The Economic Base: Distracting Vision, Distorting Reality -- 1. Economic Development and the Pursuit of Quality -- 2. Simplifying Economic Reality -- 3. The Economic Base: An Overview -- 4. An Approach as Old as Economics -- 5. The Economic-Base Model -- 6. Local Economic Development versus Export Growth -- 7. The Economic-Base Model as a Model of Short-Run Economic Shocks -- 8. Who Is Pushing Whom? Causality and the Economic Base -- 9. Defining the Economic Base -- 10. A Distorted Vision -- 11. Intellectual Inertia and Ideology -- 12. A Theory of Nondevelopment: Instability and Dependence -- 13. The Real Economic Base: Local Quality and Economic Development -- Chapter Eight: Economic Growth and Local Economic Well-Being -- 1. Introduction: The Strategies for Growth -- 2. The Objectives and Measures of Economic Growth -- 3. Quantitative Growth and Economic Well-Being: The Missing Connection -- 4. Lower Per Capita Incomes as an Indicator of Superior Well-Being -- 5. People Care Where They Live: Preferences for Living Environments.. - 6. Differences in Location-Specific Qualities Are the Dominant Explanation for Regional Differences in Wages -- 7. In a Mobile Economy, No Region Can Be Significantly Better or Worse Off -- Chapter Nine: The Self-Defeating Strategies of Quantitative Growth -- 1. Introduction -- 2. More High-Paying Jobs Are Unlikely to Boost Local Per Capita Income -- 3. Expanding Local Employment Opportunities Will Not Necessarily Put the Unemployed There to Work -- 4. Creating More Jobs Will Not Keep the Kids at Home -- 5. Economic Growth Is Unlikely to Reduce Tax Burdens -- 6. Taxes and Local Economic Growth: Competing Away the Benefits of Growth -- 7. Conclusion: Attaining the Objectives of Quantitative Growth -- Chapter Ten: The Local Pursuit of Quality: A "Can't-Lose" Economic-Development Strategy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Goals: What Is It We Want from the Economy? -- 3. Modesty as an Economic Virtue: The Importance of Respecting the Limits to Local Economic Policy -- 4. A "Can't-Lose" Economic-Development Strategy: Supporting Local Enterprise -- 5. A "Can't-Lose" Economic-Development Strategy: Improving the Quality of Public Goods and Services -- 6. "Can't-Lose" versus "No Free Lunch -- Chapter Eleven: Grander Visions, Grander Problems -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dominance of Markets and the Prevalence of Market Failure -- 3. Economic Instability: Cycles of Boom and Depression -- 4. The Consequences of Powerlessness: The Emphasis on Commercial Goods -- 5. The Treadmill of Competitive Consumption -- 6. The Undirected Economy: The Antirationality of Conventional Economics -- 7. The Amorality of Economic Analysis and the Market Economy -- 8. Grander Visions -- 9. Putting the Pieces Together -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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