Doing The Right Thing: A Value Based Economy
by Arjo Klamer /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on
economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations
for a value based approach to the economy.
This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on
economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations
for a value based approach to the economy.
The key questions are: “What is important to you or your
organization?” “What is this action or that organization good
for?”
The key questions are: “What is important to you or your
organization?” “What is this action or that organization good
for?”
The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist
thinking in the current economy and responds to the calls for
another economy. Another economy demands another economics. The
value based approach is another economics; it focuses on values
and on the most important goods such as families, homes,
communities, knowledge, and art. It places economic processes in
their cultural context.
The book is directed at the prevalence of instrumentalist
thinking in the current economy and responds to the calls for
another economy. Another economy demands another economics. The
value based approach is another economics; it focuses on values
and on the most important goods such as families, homes,
communities, knowledge, and art. It places economic processes in
their cultural context.
What does it take to do the right thing, as a person, as an
organization, as a society? What is the good to strive for? This
book gives directions for the answers.
What does it take to do the right thing, as a person, as an
organization, as a society? What is the good to strive for? This
book gives directions for the answers.
The value based approach restores the ancient idea that quality
of life and of society is what the economy is all about. It
advocates shifting the focus from quantities (“how much?”) to
qualities (“what is important?”).
The value based approach restores the ancient idea that quality
of life and of society is what the economy is all about. It
advocates shifting the focus from quantities (“how much?”) to
qualities (“what is important?”).
