BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE The need for a new economics -- PART TWO Putting people first -- 1 A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE -- 'HUMAN-SCALE ECONOMICS: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD' -- Basic ideas, hypotheses and intuitions -- (a) Micro-macro articulation -- (b) The invisible sector -- (c) The concept of human needs -- (d) The concept of poverty -- (e) Critical systems size -- (f) The aim of self-reliance -- (g) Ecological constraints -- (h) The question of indicators -- NOTES -- 2 A QUESTION OF NEEDS -- 'NEEDS AND COMMODITIES' -- VALUES, GOALS AND MOTIVATIONS -- Self-Explorers -- Social Resisters -- Experimentalists -- Conspicuous Consumers -- Belongers -- Survivors -- Aimless -- 'HUMAN NEED AND STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE' -- Basic individual and societal needs -- Optimising basic need satisfaction and human liberation -- Social and ecological conditions for human liberation -- NOTES -- 3 THE NATURE OF WORK -- 'WHAT COMES AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT?' -- Introduction -- Three possible futures for work -- A new policy approach -- Some attributes of work: a review -- Work as a dependent activity -- Work as activity under remote control -- Work as specialised activity -- Work as instrumental activity -- Work as formal activity -- Work as masculine activity -- Work as exclusive activity -- The implications for economics -- NOTES -- 4 IN SEARCH OF SELF-RELIANCE -- 'TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS: ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SELF-RELIANCE' -- On the economics of self-reliance -- On the economics of global interdependence -- Self-reliance and global interdependence: a balance sheet -- NOTES -- 5 HEALTH is WEALTH -- 'THE MISMATCH BETWEEN HEALTH AND ECONOMICS' -- Health and economic growth -- Health as an economic minus.

Sickness as an economic plus -- Limits to conventional health policies -- The economic/social divide -- Health, lifestyles and living conditions -- Third World -- Health needs, human needs -- Secure work and a useful role in society -- Dependency/self-reliance -- 'DEMEDICALIZATION AND POSSIBILITIES FOR HEALTH' -- NOTES -- 6 INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS -- RESOURCE ACCOUNTING -- 'FROM GROSS TO ADJUSTED NATIONAL PRODUCT' -- The concept and classification of defensive expenditures -- The move from Gross National Product to Adjusted National Product -- 'HEALTH-BASED INDICATORS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS' -- Infant mortality rate -- Life expectancy -- Health expectancy -- Coherence -- 'SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR POPULAR PLANNING' -- Background -- The social indicator movement -- From social indicators to a satisfaction index? -- Our approach -- Human activity patterns -- 'MAKING THE INFORMAL ECONOMY VISIBLE' -- Towards an operational definition of informal -- Towards indicators of informal activity -- The outlook for change -- NOTES -- PART THREE The new economics in action -- 7 ACCESS TO LAND -- FARMING WITH NATURE -- CO-OPERATIVE LAND HOLDING -- 'CO-OPERATIVE LAND BANKS'3 -- Inequity and inefficiency in private and public ownership -- Features of co-operative land banks -- Building co-operative land banks -- Capturing development profits -- Conclusion -- 'LAND VALUE TAXATION' -- The planning system -- NOTES -- 8 FINANCIAL FUTURES -- LOCAL CURRENCY -- The Labour Exchange Bazaar, 1832 to 1834 -- The Guernsey experiment, 1815-36, 1914 to the present -- The Worgl experiment, c. 1929 to c. 1934 -- SOCIAL INVESTMENT AND SAVER SOVEREIGNTY -- 'MONEY AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED' -- DECENTRALISED BANKING -- NOTES -- 9 WORKING LIKE WOMEN -- 'FLEXIBLE WORKING PATTERNS' -- Employment: paid work -- Occupations and industries -- Hours of work -- Places of work.

Non-employed: unpaid work -- Black economy -- Community work -- Domestic work -- Education and training -- People -- Young people -- Older people -- Adult men -- Adult women -- What of the future? -- NOTES -- 10 TAXATION, BENEFITS AND THE BASIC INCOME -- 'UNIVERSALISING CAPITAL OWNERSHIP' -- NOTES -- 11 INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE -- 'AN ECONOMIC SCENARIO FOR A CONSERVER-ECONOMY' -- Introduction -- Theoretical points of departure -- Production -- Environment -- Income distribution -- Employment -- Safety for the future -- Measures and instruments -- The results -- Why it seems necessary to implement the environmental scenario -- 'THE SUNRISE SEVEN' -- NOTES -- 12 LOCAL ECONOMIC REGENERATION AND CO-OPERATION -- 'A NEW LOCAL ECONOMIC ORDER' -- 'WHAT SMALL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TEACHES ABOUT ECONOMIC THEORY' -- Direct observations derived from the Briarpatch economic database -- 1 Briars set their own prices with relatively little direct reference to 'the market' -- 2 Pricing, merchandising and marketing are more successful in attracting customers when they contradict prevailing business values -- 3 Profit as a primary goal or value in business has a detrimental effect -- 4 Social costs are rewarded when included in the business pricing structure -- 5 Infrastructure costs are the prime determinant affinal consumer prices -- 6 Competition is a poor model of the real world -- cooperation and 'niches' are more accurate -- 7 Monopolies can occur in ordinary circumstances and arise from superior service -- 8 Honesty is a major positive factor in business efficiency -- dishonesty has negative effects and is geometrically harmful the greater the degree of dishonesty -- 9 Ownership of resources doesn't make any difference to business efficiency -- 'CO-OPERATION: WHERE THE SOCIAL MEETS THE ECONOMIC' -- NOTES.

13 LEARNING FROM THE SOUTH -- 'THE GREEN BELT MOVEMENT' -- Background -- The needs which inspired the movement -- Fuelwood -- Food production -- Soil erosion -- Population -- Lack of community participation -- Lack of public awareness -- The short-term objectives -- Focus on women's role in development -- The long-term objectives -- Achieving the objectives -- The lessons learnt -- 'PIECE-RATE WORKERS' ATTEMPT AT SELF-RELIANCE' -- 'PUTTING THE LAST FIRST'1 -- Errors and explanations -- First values and preferences -- The structure of first thinking -- Growth and spread -- Science and quantification -- Learning from above -- Analysing last needs -- Basic needs and basic goods -- Employment and livelihood -- Poverty and vulnerability -- First and last in agricultural technology -- First defences: blame, distance and denial -- Last thinking -- An agenda for research and action -- NOTES -- 14 TRADE AND THE MULTINATIONALS -- 'ALTERNATIVE TRADING STRATEGIES' -- Free trade -- Autarchy -- Trading blocks and selectivity -- 'DELINKING FROM THE WORLD MARKET' -- 'THE ROLE OF CORPORATIONS' -- A shift in underlying beliefs -- A long-term evolutionary trend -- The emerging role of the corporation -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS -- WORK, JOBS AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY -- HEALTH PROMOTION -- REAL AID -- TRADE FOR SELF-RELIANCE -- INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION -- APPENDIX 1 THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT CONFERENCE PAPERS, 1984 AND 1985: DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTORS -- APPENDIX 2 RELEVANT ADDRESSES -- APPENDIX 3 STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT -- APPENDIX 4 MAIN SPONSORS OF THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN 1984 AND 1985 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.