For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable FutureBeacon Press, 01.04.1994 - 544 Seiten Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing. |
Inhalt
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines | 25 |
Misplaced Concreteness The Market | 44 |
Misplaced Concreteness Measuring Economic Success | 62 |
Misplaced Concreteness Homo Economicus | 85 |
Misplaced Concreteness Land | 97 |
From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community | 121 |
From Chrematistics to Oikonomia | 138 |
From Individualism to PersoninCommunity | 159 |
Agriculture | 268 |
Industry | 283 |
Labor | 298 |
Income Policies and Taxes | 315 |
From World Domination to National Security | 332 |
Possible Steps | 361 |
The Religious Vision | 382 |
Money Debt and Wealth | 407 |
From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities | 176 |
From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere | 190 |
Free Trade versus Community | 209 |
Population | 236 |
Land Use | 252 |
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare | 443 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absolute advantage abstractions agricultural anthropocentrism arcology banks basic become billion biocentric biosphere calculation capital Chapter chrematistics column commodity comparative advantage competition consumer consumption cost countries damage debt decline defense depletion discipline discount dollars economic theory economic welfare economics for community economists effect energy estimate exchange expenditures external external cost fact factor farm fossil fuels free trade function future global growth Homo economicus human important income increase individual industrial interest investment ISEW issue labor land Land Economics less limits living means measure ment military misplaced concreteness natural natural capital neoclassical economics nomic Nordhaus and Tobin physical Pigovian taxes policies political pollution population problem production profit proposed reduce requires result scale seigniorage self-sufficiency social society sustainable Third World tion United virtual wealth wages workers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 17 - None the less, just as it is wrong to withdraw from the individual and commit to the community at large what private enterprise and industry can accomplish, so too it is an injustice, a grave evil and a disturbance of right order for a larger and higher organization to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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