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The perverse economy : the impact of markets on people and the environment / Michael Perelman.
LIBRA HB71 .P467 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perelman, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.
- Smith, Adam.
- Economics.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- Economic development.
- Income distribution.
- Labor productivity.
- Labor economics.
- Scarcity.
- Value.
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labor and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how formal economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the least advantaged laborers. From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has shortchanged the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed views of scarcity and extraction. Michael Perelman will show how this approach has produced a discipline in which its followers' models and representations of the world around them are so removed from reality that continuing to abide by them would jeopardize both human capacities and nature itself.
- Contents:
- 1 Adam Smith and the Farm Worker Paradox 7
- 3 Value 79
- 4 Patience 119
- 5 Environmental Efficiency 133
- 6 Back to the Farm Worker Paradox 145
- 7 A New Direction 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403962715
- OCLC:
- 52092017
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