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Limits : Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care / Giorgos Kallis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kallis, Giorgos, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Castoriadis.
- Limits to growth.
- Malthusianism.
- Romantics.
- autonomy.
- degrowth.
- ecological economics.
- history of economics.
- scarcity.
- sustainable development.
- Local Subjects:
- Castoriadis.
- Limits to growth.
- Malthusianism.
- Romantics.
- autonomy.
- degrowth.
- ecological economics.
- history of economics.
- scarcity.
- sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Why Limits?
- 1. Why Malthus Was Wrong
- 2. Economics: Scarcity without Limits
- 3. The Limits of Environmentalism
- 4. A Culture of Limits
- 5. The Limits of Limits
- Epilogue: In Defense of Limits
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-1156-6
- OCLC:
- 1178769264
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