Overview

Contrasts and compares theories of, and policies for, economic propsperity, environmental sustainability and social progress. Economists, environmentalists, and development theorists have been unable to agree on the most successful prescriptions to address problems and this book shows why theorists conceptualize the process of social experience so differently. The book: addresses the subjective preference, cost-of-production and abstract labour theories of values in economics; explains egocentrism, ecocentrism and socioecocentrism as competing theoretical perspectives in environmental theory; highlights modernization theory, structuralist theory and class struggle as ways to account for the process of development; and examines the generation of knowledge through positivism, paradigms and praxis.

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Author:   Ken Cole
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.657kg
ISBN:  

9780415162586

ISBN 10:   0415162580
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   04 November 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The Scientific Parameters of Social Existence Part One Economy 2. Economy 3. The Consumer as Economic Dynamic - The Subjective preference theory of value 4. The Producer as Economic Dynamic - The cost-of-production theory of value 5. The Citizen as Dconomic Dynamic - The Abstract labout Theory of Value Part Two Environment 6. Environment 7. The Environment as a source of pleasure - egocentrism 8. The Environment as a Productive Resource - Ecocentrism 9. The Environment and Social Evolution - Sociocentrism Part Three Development 10. Development 11. Development as the Fulfilment of Individuals' Potentials - Modernisation 12. Development as fulfilling the technical potentials of co-operation - structuralism 13. Development as the fulfilment of people's social potentials - class struggle Part Four Knowledge 14. knowledge 15. What? - Identifying Events - Positivism 16. How? - Defining System - paradigms 17. Why? - understanding processes - praxis 18. Intellectual Panorama, Ideological vision and political view

Reviews

'As a lecturer teaching Development Studies - I have been waiting for this book, there is nothing like it. It is an incredible analysis - quite brilliant.'- Ian Yaxley, Queen Margaret University College

'As a lecturer teaching Development Studies - I have been waiting for this book, there is nothing like it. It is an incredible analysis - quite brilliant.' - Ian Yaxley, Queen Margaret University College

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