The concept of human nature and the sustainable economic policy
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The following study is devoted to the role of the concept of human nature in the development and implementation of sustainable development policy. It's discussed, whether and how in the time of economic crises, human concepts underlying the heterodox economic schools, could provide a better basis for the foundations of economics (scope, purpose, method) and therefore for the economic policy (its goal, actors and tools). For the purpose of this study three most distinctive, different concepts of human nature are selected, which build the fundaments of behavioral, ecological and humanistic economics, belonging to current heterodox economics. These concepts influenced the creation of homo sustinens - a concept created as a basis for sustainable development policy. The concepts of human nature discussed in the paper may have different applications within the sustainable development policy (extending the repertoire of tools, the structure of entities and actors, and better clarification of the goals). Their integration into the sustainable policy opens up opportunities for the future development of this policy.(original abstract)
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