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Human well-being and the natural environment /
"In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a s...
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| Formato: | Printed Book |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Edición: | Paperback ed. |
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| Summary: | "In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to the natural environment, illustrating how it can be incorporated, more generally, into economic reasoning in a seamless manner. Such familiar terms as 'sustainable development', 'social discount rates', and Earth's 'carrying capacity' are given a firm theoretical underpinning. The author shows that, whether we are interested in valuing the state of affairs in a country or in evaluating economic policy there, the index that should be used is the economy's wealth, which is the social worth of its capital assets."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Descrición Física: | xxiv, 351 p. : |
| ISBN: | 0195660595 |