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- catalog abstract "Cristovam Buarque argues that economic theory, if it is to continue to command either public respect or intellectual confidence in its relevance to the realities of the modern world, must incorporate the need for an ethical system to guide its endeavours and prescriptions. At a time when our civilisational model is in crisis as a result of global environmental degradation and the failure of development to solve the problem of poverty, economics must accept that there. Have to be limits to growth and that the increasing inequality between both classes and countries is neither morally tolerable nor politically sensible. The very notion of economic progress needs to be rethought. Technological advance must respect nature, and the fetishism of applying economic theories without regard to their human consequences must be abandoned. This powerful exploration provides an essential starting point for those economists who see the need for a. Breakthrough to a new and more enduring paradigm in their discipline.".
- catalog alternative "Desordem do progresso. English".
- catalog contributor b4057219.
- catalog coverage "Brazil Economic conditions 1985-".
- catalog coverage "Brazil Economic policy.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Breakthrough to a new and more enduring paradigm in their discipline.".
- catalog description "Cristovam Buarque argues that economic theory, if it is to continue to command either public respect or intellectual confidence in its relevance to the realities of the modern world, must incorporate the need for an ethical system to guide its endeavours and prescriptions. At a time when our civilisational model is in crisis as a result of global environmental degradation and the failure of development to solve the problem of poverty, economics must accept that there.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Ignacy Sachs -- Ch. 1. The Need for Ethics. The evolution of science and ethics. The failure of the social sciences. The abolition of explanatory ethics in Economics. Interventionist Economics -- Ch. 2. The Quest for Essentials. A science among sciences. New ethics: new values. New Economics: the essentials. New Ecology: the global aspects -- Ch. 3. The Underdeveloped Concept of Underdevelopment. The development of progress. The premature senility of the idea of progress. Importing the idea of progress into the South. The progress of the idea of progress -- Ch. 4. Modernizing Modernity. The bomb that liberates. Exorcising modernity. The ethical purpose. Bringing the economy to heel. Cosmopolitan nationalism. The technology of technology -- Ch. 5. Economic Fetishism. Masking reality. Coming to terms with magic -- Ch. 6. The Power of Technology. The vitality of myths -- Ch. 7. The Value of Nature. The environment and the economy. Optimism in economic theory. The discovery of the environment. The difficulties of incorporating nature into Economics. The challenge of a new formulation -- Ch. 8. The Value of Culture. Fear of beauty. The aesthetics of value. The value of aesthetics. The epistemological gap. Reinventing order. The value of culture -- Ch. 9. Thinking in a Third-World World. The century that ended before its time. From ethics to ethics. From the century of technology to the century of ethics. From certainty to doubt. From materialism to a new spirituality. From specialization to holism. From theoretical evolution to revolution in thinking. From traditional anthropocentrism to neo-anthropocentrism. From cold war to hot peace. From utopia to fear of the future. From false equality to social apartheid to real equality. From national states to diversified cosmopolitanism. From neutral language to ethical language. From Economics to Econology. The theologians of the modern age.".
- catalog description "Have to be limits to growth and that the increasing inequality between both classes and countries is neither morally tolerable nor politically sensible. The very notion of economic progress needs to be rethought. Technological advance must respect nature, and the fetishism of applying economic theories without regard to their human consequences must be abandoned. This powerful exploration provides an essential starting point for those economists who see the need for a.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 172 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "End of economics?".
- catalog identifier "1856490971".
- catalog isFormatOf "End of economics?".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng por".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books,".
- catalog relation "End of economics?".
- catalog spatial "Brazil Economic conditions 1985-".
- catalog spatial "Brazil Economic policy.".
- catalog subject "338.9/001 20".
- catalog subject "Economic development Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "HC187 .B9135313 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Ignacy Sachs -- Ch. 1. The Need for Ethics. The evolution of science and ethics. The failure of the social sciences. The abolition of explanatory ethics in Economics. Interventionist Economics -- Ch. 2. The Quest for Essentials. A science among sciences. New ethics: new values. New Economics: the essentials. New Ecology: the global aspects -- Ch. 3. The Underdeveloped Concept of Underdevelopment. The development of progress. The premature senility of the idea of progress. Importing the idea of progress into the South. The progress of the idea of progress -- Ch. 4. Modernizing Modernity. The bomb that liberates. Exorcising modernity. The ethical purpose. Bringing the economy to heel. Cosmopolitan nationalism. The technology of technology -- Ch. 5. Economic Fetishism. Masking reality. Coming to terms with magic -- Ch. 6. The Power of Technology. The vitality of myths -- Ch. 7. The Value of Nature. The environment and the economy. Optimism in economic theory. The discovery of the environment. The difficulties of incorporating nature into Economics. The challenge of a new formulation -- Ch. 8. The Value of Culture. Fear of beauty. The aesthetics of value. The value of aesthetics. The epistemological gap. Reinventing order. The value of culture -- Ch. 9. Thinking in a Third-World World. The century that ended before its time. From ethics to ethics. From the century of technology to the century of ethics. From certainty to doubt. From materialism to a new spirituality. From specialization to holism. From theoretical evolution to revolution in thinking. From traditional anthropocentrism to neo-anthropocentrism. From cold war to hot peace. From utopia to fear of the future. From false equality to social apartheid to real equality. From national states to diversified cosmopolitanism. From neutral language to ethical language. From Economics to Econology. The theologians of the modern age.".
- catalog title "Desordem do progresso. English".
- catalog title "The end of economics : ethics and the disorder of progress / Cristovam Buarque; translated by Mark Ridd.".
- catalog type "text".