Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Why this book? And why now? -- 1 Overview and plan of the book -- The power of narratives -- Central themes -- Some terminology clarified -- The plan of the book -- Part I Sustainability and Natural Capitalism -- 2 Genuine sustainability and what it will require of us -- How is "sustainable" to be defined? -- Political sustainability -- 3 Natural Capitalism -- A new focus for productivity -- The four principles of Natural Capitalism -- First principle: maximize resource productivity
Second principle: biomimicry -- closed-loop systems -- Third principle: cradle to cradle -- a new business model -- Fourth principle: restoring natural capital -- Concluding remarks -- 4 The narrative of Natural Capitalism -- Infrastructural requirements of Natural Capitalism and the TIR -- The character of the post-TIR world -- The narrative of sustainability -- Concluding remarks -- Part II Classical Liberalism: the conceptual foundations of Consumer Capitalism -- 5 John Locke and the theory of private property -- Historical context and Locke's motives -- The theory reconstructed
Some consequences of the theory -- 6 Adam Smith and the laissez-faire market -- Historical context and Smith's motives -- Reconstructing Smith's theory -- Some consequences of the theory -- 7 Contrasting visions: Classical versus Progressive Liberalism and the ideal state -- Robert Nozick: the Night Watchman State -- Stage 1: leaving anarchy behind -- Stage 2: limits of the state -- John Rawls: justice as fairness -- Stage 1: the Principles of Justice -- Stage 2: the Original Position -- The two views compared -- Joseph Stiglitz and the price of inequality -- Robert Putnam and social capital
8 Corporate governance and the limits of corporate social responsibility -- The Shareholder Model (Milton Friedman) -- The Stakeholder Model (R. Edward Freeman) -- Summary and conclusions -- Part III Classical Liberalism through a normative lens -- 9 Consequentialist moral theories -- Historical context and motivations -- Rule Utilitarianism -- Stage 1: the standard version of John Stuart Mill -- Stage 2: Preference Utilitarianism -- Why Preference Utilitarianism is such a good fit for Classical Liberalism -- Re-evaluating the "fit" of Preference Utilitarianism for Classical Liberalism
10 Kantian Duty Theory and the deontological normative tradition -- Kant's historical context and motivations -- The theory reconstructed -- The Categorical Imperative: the fundamental law in its first formulation -- The Practical Imperative: the fundamental law in its second formulation -- The kingdom of ends: the fundamental law in its third formulation -- The nature of our duties: perfect versus imperfect duties and duties to others versus duties to self -- Kantian Duty Theory and Classical Liberalism -- Summary and conclusions -- 11 Concluding remarks
