Bibliograph

The wealth of nature, how mainstream economics has failed the environment, Robert L. Nadeau

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The wealth of nature, how mainstream economics has failed the environment, Robert L. Nadeau

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wealth of nature

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

216947045

Responsibility statement

Robert L. Nadeau

Sub title

how mainstream economics has failed the environment

Summary

Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that our failure to recognize and deal with this fact constitutes the greatest single barrier to the timely resolution of the crisis in the global envir

Table Of Contents

Introduction; 1. Spaceship Earth> Homo economicus and the Environmental Crisis; 2. The Not So Worldly Philosophers; Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics; 3. The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Economists and Mid-Nineteenth Century Physics; 4. No Free Lunch: Mainstream Economics and Globalization; 5. A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand: Environmental Economics; 6. Schisms, Heresies, and Keeping the Faith: Ecological Economics; 7. The Real Economy in Biology: Emerence and a New View of Order; 8. The Real Economy in Physics: Cosmic Connections9. Toward a New Theory of Economics: The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment10. The Ceremony of Innocence: Science, Ethics, and the Environmental Crisis; Notes; Index

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