ISBN:
9781137445360
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (380 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48200000000003
Keywords:
Globalization
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Using this Book -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMICS, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY -- 1 The World Economy: Trends and Indicators -- Overview and learning objectives -- 1.1 Worldwide economic growth in the last century -- 1.2 Welfare, well-being and sustainable development -- 1.3 Learning tools -- 2 Market Economies and Governments -- Overview and learning objectives -- 2.1 Definitions and basic concepts -- 2.2 Welfare and the market economy -- 2.3 Neoclassical free-market framework -- 2.4 Limitations of market regulation through supply and demand -- 2.5 How the market economy affects prosperity, wellbeing and environment -- 2.6 Economic and financial crises -- 2.7 Case Study: The US sub-prime crisis -- 2.8 Learning tools -- 3 Good Governance -- Overview and learning objectives -- 3.1 Starting points for good governance -- 3.2 Good governance of a state -- 3.3 Case Study: Governance in Mozambique -- 3.4 Learning tools -- 4 Life in Modern Society -- Overview and learning objectives -- 4.1 Nature -- 4.2 Ethics -- 4.3 Modern society -- 4.4 Case Study: Tit-for-Tat -- 4.5 Learning tools -- PART II: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION -- 5 Sustainable Development: Environmental and Social Aspects -- Overview and learning objectives -- 5.1 Prosperity, well-being and the environment -- 5.2 Sustainable development -- 5.3 Environmental sustainability -- 5.4 Social sustainability -- 5.5 Case Study: Biofuel's dilemma: Food or energy -- 5.6 Learning tools -- 6 Governance of Sustainability -- Overview and learning objectives -- 6.1 Factors influencing environment impacts -- 6.2 Environment and the market economy -- 6.3 Environment as a government problem -- 6.4 Case Study: Forest management in Uttranchal, India -- 6.5 Learning tools -- 7 Globalization.
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