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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Peter G.

Contributor:

Garver, Geoffrey.

Series:

BK currents book.

A BK currents book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Econometric models.

Sustainable development.

Human ecology--Economic aspects.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612299551

9781282299559

1282299557

9781576758557

1576758559

OCLC:

476226541