The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of Earth - Rilegato

Smith, Joseph Wayne; Lyons, Graham; Sauer-Thompson, Gary

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ISBN 10: 0333681444 ISBN 13: 9780333681442

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Riassunto

We live in times of uncertainty and insecurity at a personal, national and global level. Writers such as Samuel P. Huntington and Robert D. Kaplan respectively have spoken of an emerging 'clash of civilizations' and of 'the coming anarchy'. This book is also concerned with the future of civilization, in particular with the conflict between economic growth and the sustainability of the biophysical life-support systems of the planet. Economic globalization - the creation of a one-world economy with the free-flow of capital, goods and services across national boundaries - is eroding the economic sovereignty of nations, and producing a trail of unemployment and social turmoil in its wake. Further, the irresistible force of economic globalization is set to crash into the immovable object of the global environmental crisis, producing a breakdown of civilized order in the world, and threatening the continuation of human life itself. This book is a systematic critique of orthodox neoclassical economics, which has supplied a philosophical and ideological framework for economic globalization, unending economic growth and the ceaseless exploitation of nature.

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This is an important book. The editors of this admirably clear treatment show what a truly scientific economics looks like. Garrett Hardin, biologist, ecologist and author of Living Within Limits

L'autore:

JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the author of Healing a Wounded World (with G.Sauer-Thompson and G.Lyons), Is the End Nigh? (with E.Moore and G.Lyons), Beyond Economics: Postmodernity, Globalization and National Sustainability (with G.Sauer-Thompson), and Immigration and the Social Contract (with J.Tanton and D.McCormack eds).

GRAHAM LYONS is a prominent Australian businessman and agriculturalist. He is the Director of Glen Bold Cattle Ranch in Echunga and a number of other properties. He has studied applied genetics at the Wait Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, South Australia. He is co-author of Is the End Nigh? (with E.Moore and J.W.Smith) and Healing a Wounded World (with G.Sauer-Thompson and J.W.Smith).

GARY SAUER-THOMPSON was trained as an economist in New Zealand and worked in the New Zealand public service for a number of years. He returned to university after migrating to Australia where he studied philosophy. He is presently a Lecturer in Philosophy at Flinders University of South Australia. He is co-author of Healing a Wounded World (with J.W.Smith and G.Lyons) and Beyond Economics: Postmodernity, Globalization and National Sustainability (with J.W.Smith).

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0333681444
• ISBN 13: 9780333681442
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208