| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiv, 235 pages) |
| Contents |
Part one: What's the problem? The debate: from popes to apologists -- Capitalism: caveats and critics -- Part two: Climate capitalism: carbon, politics, and solutions. Price and the need for speed -- White hats and black hats: getting corporate leaders in the fight -- Market interventions: accelerating clean technologies -- From people to the planet: how sovereign is sovereign? -- Part 3: Welcome to the anthropocene |
| Summary |
"The left and right -- the business community and environmentalists, bankers and activists -- must together reclaim capitalism and force profits to align with the planet. A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide: anti-market critics from Naomi Klein to the Pope target capitalism itself as a root cause of climate change, while neo-conservatives who diminish the climate threat are in favor of market fundamentalism. Rand argues that both sides in this emerging cultural war are ill-equipped to provide solutions to the climate crisis, and each is remarkably naïve in their view of capitalism. On one hand, we cannot possibly transition off fossil fuels without the financial might and entrepreneurial talent market forces alone can unlock. On the other, without radical changes to the way markets operate, capitalism will take us right off the climate cliff. Rejecting the old left/right ideologies, Rand develops a more pragmatic view capable of delivering practical solutions to this critical problem. A renewed capitalism harnessed to the task is the only way we might replace fossil fuels fast enough to mitigate severe climate risk. If we leave our dogma at the door, Rand argues, we might just build an economy that survives the century."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (EBSCOhost, viewed February 5, 2021) |
| Subject |
Environmental economics.
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Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
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Social responsibility of business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
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Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
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Environmental economics
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Social responsibility of business
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781773055107 |
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1773055100 |
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9781773055091 |
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1773055097 |
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