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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808062303321

Autore

Brown Peter G

Titolo

Right relationship : building a whole earth economy / / Peter G. Brown, Geoffrey Garver ; with Keith Helmuth, Robert Howell, Steve Szechi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, : Ingram Publisher Services [distributor], c2009

ISBN

1-282-29955-7

9786612299551

1-57675-855-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

A BK currents book

Altri autori (Persone)

GarverGeoffrey

Disciplina

338.9/27

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Econometric models

Human ecology - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Moving from Wrong to Right Relationship; 1 What's the Economy For?: A Flourishing Commonwealth of Life; 2 How Does It Work?: Putting the Economy in Its Place; 3 How Big Is Too Big?: Boundaries on Consumption and Waste; 4 What's Fair?: Sharing Life's Bounty; 5 Governance: New Ways to Stay in Bounds and Play Fair; Conclusion: Four Steps to a Whole Earth Economy; Notes; Resources; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Moral Economy Project; About the Authors;

Sommario/riassunto

Our current economic system is unsustainable. Its fundamental elementsunlimited growth and endless wealth accumulationfly in the face of the fact that the Earths resources are clearly finite. The destructive effects of this denial of reality are wreaking havoc on our ecological and social systems. But what is the alternative? We need to go beyond simply fixing problems as they arise, or even as we anticipate them, and offer a comprehensive new economic model. It is a moral imperative.