1. Discourses on Poverty: emerging perspectives on a caring economy.
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Wenden, AnitaL
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SOCIOECONOMICS , *ECONOMIC models , *CAREGIVERS , *ECONOMIC development , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
In The Real Wealth of Nations, Eisler proposes a holistic view of the economy, which would include the caring sectors—the household, unpaid community work and the environment—as an alternative to market-oriented economic models that have proven ineffective in dealing with the problems facing our local and global communities. Her inclusion of language change as part of a strategy for economic transformation implicitly recognises the socially constitutive function of discourse, a notion put forth by critical linguists. Based on these economic and linguistic perspectives, this article reports on a study that examined the social knowledge about poverty constructed through selected discourses to determine whether they communicate a narrow or holistic view of the economy. It proposes that economic planning for poverty reduction build upon the process of language change towards a caring economy as revealed by the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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