The wealth of nature : how mainstream economics has failed the environment /
Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting boo...
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Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Spaceship Earth> Homo economicus and the Environmental Crisis; 2. The Not So Worldly Philosophers; Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics; 3. The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Economists and Mid-Nineteenth Century Physics; 4. No Free Lunch: Mainstream Economics and Globalization; 5. A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand: Environmental Economics; 6. Schisms, Heresies, and Keeping the Faith: Ecological Economics; 7. The Real Economy in Biology: Emerence and a New View of Order; 8. The Real Economy in Physics: Cosmic Connections.
- 9. Toward a New Theory of Economics: The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment10. The Ceremony of Innocence: Science, Ethics, and the Environmental Crisis; Notes; Index.
