Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262540681 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 399 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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F. King Hubbert, C. Their common theme is the notion, popular with classical economists from Malthus to Mill, that an economic stationary state is more healthful to life on earth than unlimited growth. Ehrlich, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Garrett Hardin, John P. Lewis, E. They vividly demonstrate that, contrary to current macroeconomic preoccupations, continued growth on a planet of finite resources cannot be physically or economically sustained and is morally undesirable.Among the issues addressed are population growth, resource use, pollution, theology (east and west), energy, and economic growth. S. Townsend.. H. Tietenberg, Kenneth N. Boulding, John Cobb, Herman E. Daly, Anne H. Ehrlich, Paul R. Valuing the Earth collects more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context. A number of essays in the first edition have become classics and have been retained for this edition, which adds six new essays.Contributors Kenneth E. Schumacher, Gerald Alonzo Smith, T. Holdren, M
Daly is Senior Economist at the World Bank.Kenneth N. Herman E. Townsend is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College.
. Daly is Senior Economist at the World Bank.Kenneth N. Townsend is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Hampden-Sydney College. About the Author Herman E
"A Treasure Chest--The Originals Plus the Current Masters" according to Robert David STEELE Vivas. Edit of 21 Dec 07 to add links to more recent books that build on this.This is one of three books that I bought for review with the intent of selecting one for broad pro-bono distribution. Although I chose "For the Common Good" and I recommend "Ecological Economics" as the one book to buy if you buy only one (see my reviews of those books at their own pages), this book is a treasure chest of original and current thinking that should certainly be in your hands if you can afford all three books. As another reviewer has noted, it finally re-. VTE is an example of scholarship that is rare in its field. A Customer As a citizen who is concerned about the health of the environment, I was enlightened by the essays in the first section of this book. The authors leave little room for doubt that the Earth can sustain a finite population, and for a finite length of time. Without any of the hysterical rhetoric which so often characterizes the political debate on this topic, these scholars demonstrate the fact that our existence on this, the eastern shore of Eden, is ephemeral. As a student of economics, I was impressed by the lucid exploration of free-ente. Long-awaited essay collection for the ecological economist A Customer For the advanced student of the discipline of ecological economics this essay-collection provides a handfull of the most influential classics of the field, of which many has been hard to come by for years. The essays by Garrett Hardin, Herman Daly, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Paul and Anne Ehrlich are among the most frequently cited essays of the field - and for good reasons.