POLS 4045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Market Fundamentalism, Pesticide, National Accounts
22 Mar 2018
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Kovel: socioeconomic system critique and the root of divide between human beings and the rest of nature. Consider major values that underpin our contemporary mode of existence, taken for granted and not rigorously de ned: built in our values is the relationship between us and the rest of nature. Progress (development) as an idea is a linchpin: industrialization implications of e ciency, rationality, technological innovation, technological/scienti c knowledge and scienti c innovation, civilization and intelligence, rising standards of living. Income, education, consumer items are the measure of individual progress of people. Growth of gdp, pro ts, incomes, people"s assets. This measure of progress requires control of natural resources and environment and technological know-how and labour (modifying natural resources into sth else) Economics have to do with trade and production but not just for accumulating wealth [it"s about the care and management of the household at its core]
