Insatiable is not sustainable / Doug Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Douglas M., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: Is Sustainability a New Cultural Paradigm?: The Three Cultures Approach 1

Part 1 Where We've Been

The Culture of Security

Chapter 1 A History of the Satiable Human Self 15

Chapter 2 The Neolithic Revolution and the Emergence of the Insatiable Self 33

Part 2 Where We Are

The Culture of Insatiable Freedom

Chapter 3 Capitalism and the Sixteenth Century: The Universalization of the Insatiable Self: Everyone SHOULD Be All They Can Be 63

Chapter 4 Marx, Mill, and Capitalism: Driven by Improvement 93

Chapter 5 From Being More to Having More: Today's Economy of Insatiable Improvers 127

Part 3 Where Should We Go

The Culture of Sustainability

Chapter 6 The Satiable Self: Zorba Meets Gandhi 167

Conclusion: A Sustainable Economy or Postmodern Feudalism? 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-216) and index.

ISBN:

0275968480

0275974162

OCLC:

46872365