03571nam 2200661 450 991082075220332120200520144314.01-55339-335-X1-55339-507-710.1515/9781553395072(CKB)3710000000647844(EBL)4512173(OOCEL)451310(OCoLC)951830074(CaBNVSL)kck00236693(Au-PeEL)EBL4512173(CaPaEBR)ebr11204345(CaONFJC)MIL916274(OCoLC)905599385(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/htw3hv(MiAaPQ)EBC4512173(DE-B1597)656714(DE-B1597)9781553395072(EXLCZ)99371000000064784420160514h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNavigating on the Titanic economic growth, energy, and the failure of governance /Bryne PurchaseMontreal, [Quebećbec] :School of Policy Studies, Queen's University :McGill-Queen's University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (160 p.)Queen's Policy Studies Series1-55339-330-9 Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1: The Brief History of Economic Growth -- Chapter 2: Energy Matters: Energy Price Shocks and the Global Economic Transformation -- Chapter 3: Global Energy Mega-Risks: Resource Depletion, Geopolitical Security, and Climate Change -- Chapter 4: Why Private Organizations and Markets Fail -- Chapter 5: Can Our Governments Act Pre-emptively? -- Chapter 6: Can Our Governments Forestall Climate Change? -- Chapter 7: Looking Forward.Navigating the Titanic outlines the brief history of economic growth and the private and public institutions - markets, corporations, households, and governments - which underpin that growth. Bryne Purchase examines mega-risks related to our economy's use of fossil fuels and specifically looks at resource depletion, energy security, and climate change - all "mega-risks" because they are both global in scope and potentially existential in impact. Focusing on North America, with a particular emphasis on the United States, Purchase's central argument is that the institutions which have produced spectacular economic growth are not capable of acting with prudence to deal with these mega-risks before they become a real danger. He identifies certain institutional design flaws that, while underwriting economic growth, leave society open to potentially catastrophic failure and reveals how these design flaws have been compounded by the stresses of the growing income inequality in society.Queen's policy studies.Economic developmentUnited StatesEconomic developmentCanadaPower resourcesEnvironmental aspectsUnited StatesPower resourcesEnvironmental aspectsCanadaEconomic developmentEconomic developmentPower resourcesEnvironmental aspectsPower resourcesEnvironmental aspects330.973Purchase Bryne1637364Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.).School of Policy Studies,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820752203321Navigating on the Titanic3979174UNINA