Papers by Manfred Max-neef
Este escrito es la continuidad de una primera reflexión que titulamos La evolución sostenible (... more Este escrito es la continuidad de una primera reflexión que titulamos La evolución sostenible (I). Una crisis multidimensional. La idea central de esa primera reflexión indicaba que nos encontramos ante lo que podríamos denominar un final de época, debido a la convergencia de poderosos fenómenos entre los que destacábamos los que siguen:
AMBIO, 2010
The first part of the paper is an attempt to demonstrate that what we are going through at the pr... more The first part of the paper is an attempt to demonstrate that what we are going through at the present time is not just an economic-financial crisis, but a crisis of humanity. It seems that for the first time in human history several crises converge to simultaneously reach their maximum level of tension. The dominant economic model is to a great degree responsible for the world's collision course. Hence a number of myths that sustain the model are listed and analyzed. It is argued that a new economy, coherent with the problematiques of the twenty first century, needs urgently to be devised. The second part proposes the foundations for a new economy based on five fundamental postulates that allow the construction of transdisciplinary, holistic, and systemic visions to adequately understand the interdependence of all the elements that sustain life. It is stressed that it is no longer acceptable that Universities still teach economic theories of the nineteenth century in order to tackle twenty first century problems that have no precedence.
Environmental Policy and Governance, Aug 29, 2011
ABSTRACT This article extends the Human-scale Development methodology to include non-humans. We f... more ABSTRACT This article extends the Human-scale Development methodology to include non-humans. We found this wider approach to be helpful in analysing the conflict of interest between fish farming and otter protection in the Natural Reserve of the Sado River estuary in Portugal. Our analysis of this environmental conflict goes beyond the anthropocentric view restricted to human needs to include all stakeholder needs, ie both human and non-human 'actants'. The needs-based analysis aims to ensure that local development strategies are ...
Health Systems Research, 1987
Ecological Economics, 2014
Ecological Economics, 2002
Ecological Economics, 2009
Since its inception, the scope of inquiry within modern economics has been overall reduced to the... more Since its inception, the scope of inquiry within modern economics has been overall reduced to the chrematistic, market-centred dimension of the economic process. This has been reflected in the very way it shaped the modern idea of development which, more and more, has been represented in monetary terms to the point of being equated to chrematistic growth altogether. This reductionism has been severely criticized for various reasons, mostly related to the ignorance of the complex, multidimensional, social, cultural and psychological motives and aspirations of human beings, ignoring as well crucial environmental and ecological dimensions within and by means of which the economic process unfolds. One fundamental early contribution to the re-conceptualization of the economic development process in terms of well-being from a systemic perspective came about with the Human-Scale development approach (H-SD) in the 1980s. Central to this paradigm is a systemic re-conceptualization of human needs and an attempt to place this discussion at the centre of the development debate. It suggested a recovery of the oikonomy in its original classical meaning, as a means for achieving better well-being beyond the chrematistics narrow scope. This theory presents a very wide outlook for its theoretical and practical applications and in this paper we will try to build on H-SD's original contribution. We begin this by briefly outlining what can be termed the chrematistic turn within both modern economics' theory and practice at the dawn of modern capitalism. In the second section the main aspects of the H-SD approach are briefly presented and discussed. The last sections are devoted to propose some methodological extensions to the original H-SD version suggesting innovative ways of enlarging its scope through the development and improvement of its evaluation tools. Thereby we hope to enhance its application within its traditional context as well as indicating means for applying it to other fields as development policies, strategies or eventually, appraisal of new technologies.
Ecological Economics, 1995
Ecological Economics, 2004
Ecological Economics, 2005
If we go through a list of some of the main problematiques 1 that are defining the new Century, s... more If we go through a list of some of the main problematiques 1 that are defining the new Century, such as water, forced migrations, poverty, environmental crises, violence, terrorism, neo-imperialism, destruction of social fabric, we must conclude that none of them can be ...
From Capitalistic to Humanistic Business, 2014
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