Capitalism and the environment : a proposal to save the planet / Shi-Ling Hsu, Florida State University College of Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsu, Shi-Ling, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Environmental aspects.

Capitalism.

Environmental policy.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism, given up for dead only 30 years ago. In Capitalism and the Environment, Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse, if enacted, will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures - the result of bad decision-making - and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism, capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism, which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment.

Contents:

Introduction

How capitalism saves the environment

Capital investments create their own political economy

Bloated capital : how capitalism went awry

The case for environmental taxation

What should be taxed?

Generating environmental knowledge

Looking before leaping

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hsu, Shi-Ling. Capitalism and the environment

ISBN:

9781108636087

110863608X

9781108648301

1108648304

9781108681599

110868159X

OCLC:

1492991989