Defining wealth, rethinking development, achieving sustainability

Humanomics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 42-59

  Goulet, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750269781     PISSN: 08288666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb018827     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. World Bank, World Development Report 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, ‘Overview’, 1.
2. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987, 89.
3. Paul Streeten, ‘Future generations and socio-economic development — introducing the long-term perspective,’ unpublished manuscript (January 1991), 3. A shorter, published, version of this text does not contain the citation given. It appears as ‘Des institutions pour un developpement durable’ in Revue Tiers-Monde, 33:130 (avril–juin 1992), 455–69.
4. Paul Streeten, ‘Future generations and socio-economic development — introducing the long-term perspective,’, Revue Tiers-Monde, 1–2.
5. Paul Ekins, ‘Sustainability first,’ in Paul Ekins and Manfred Max-Neef, eds. Real-Life Economics. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 412.
6. Duane Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity. New York: William Morrow, 1982;
7. Denis Goulet, ‘Voluntary austerity: the necessary art,’ The Christian Century, 8 June 1966, 748–53.
8. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark. New York: Mentor Books, 1962, 11.
9. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark. New York: Mentor Books, 1962, 39.
10. For Gandhi's views on development, see Amritananda Das, Foundations of Gandhian Economics. Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 1979, and
11. J.P. Naik, ‘Gandhi and development theory’, The Review of Politics, 45:3 (July 1983), 345–65.
12. Barry Lopez, ‘The American Indian mind,’ Quest 78 (September–October 1978), 109.
13. Charles Avila, Ownership: Early Christian Teaching. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1983.
14. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934, 76.
15. Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be? New York: Harper & Row, 1976, 15–16.
16. Keith Griffin, Alternative Strategies for Economic Development. London: Macmillan, 1989, 242.
17. This Classification is adapted from Denis Goulet, Mexico: Development Strategies for the Future. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983, 15–20.
18. Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed. New York: Avon Books, 1975, 20.
19. For different comparative rankings of countries on two scales — GNP per capita, and a ‘human development index’ designed to measure the range of choices available to people to live a “fulfilled” life — see United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1997. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, Table 1: ‘Human Development Index’, 146–8.
20. For a detailed analysis of how the scale of technologies affects employment, see Raphael Kaplinski, The Economies of Small, Appropriate Technology in a Changing World. London: Appropriate Technology International, 1990.
21. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, 5–6.
22. For detailed justification and illustration, see Denis Goulet and Kwan S. Kim, Estrategias de Dessarrollo para el Futuro de Mexico. Guadalajara: ITESO, 1989.
23. Denis Goulet, ‘Three rationalities in development decision-making,’ World Development, 14:2 (1986), 301–17.
24. Ismail Serageldin and Andrew Steer, eds., Making Development Sustainable: From Concepts to Action. Washington: The World Bank, 1994. Environmentally Sustainable Development Occasional Paper Series, No. 2, 18.
25. Ismail Serageldin and Andrew Steer, Making Development Sustainable: From Concepts to Action, 1994, No. 2 18–20.
26. Accounts Overdue: Natural Resource Depreciation in Costa Rica. Washington: World Resources Institute, 1991, 4.
27. Robert Repetto, Promoting Environmentally Sound Economic Progress. Washington: World Resources Institute, 1990, 5.
28. See, for example, Frances Cairncross, Costing the Earth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992, Chapter 2, ‘Costs and Benefits’.
29. World Bank, World Development Report 1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, 242.
30. Carlos Andres Perez, ‘Foreword’ to Redefining Wealth and Progress: New Ways to Measure Economic, Social and Environmental Change. New York: Bootstrap Press, 1990, p. ix.
31. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, 1.
32. Entitled ‘Monitoring environmental progress (MEP): a report on work in progress,’ 1995.
33. Douglass Stinson, ‘Sustainable accords? Free trade and the environment,’ Latinamerica Press, 25:24 (1 July 1993), 1.
34. Leonard Silk, ‘Dangers of slow growth,’ Foreign Affairs, 72:1 (1992–3), 173.
35. Chesterton Day by Day, 2nd ed. London: Kegan Paul, 1912, 14. Chesterton's statement is drawn from What s Wrong with the World?