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Author Daly, Herman E.

Title For the common good : redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future / Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr. ; with contributions by Clifford W. Cobb
Edition Second edition, updated and expanded
Published Boston : Beacon Press, [1994]
©1994

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 MELB  330.1 Dal/Ftc 1994  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 534 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
regular print
Series ISSR Library
ISSR Library
Contents Pt. 1. Economics as an Academic Discipline. 1. The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines. 2. Misplaced Concreteness: The Market. 3. Misplaced Concreteness: Measuring Economic Success. 4. Misplaced Concreteness: Homo economicus. 5. Misplaced Concreteness: Land -- Pt. 2. New Beginnings. 6. From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community. 7. From Chrematistics to Oikonomia. 8. From Individualism to Person-in-Community. 9. From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities. 10. From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere -- Pt. 3. Policies for Community in the United States. 11. Free Trade versus Community. 12. Population. 13. Land Use. 14. Agriculture. 15. Industry. 16. Labor. 17. Income Policies and Taxes. 18. From World Domination to National Security -- Pt. 4. Getting There. 19. Possible Steps. 20. The Religious Vision -- Afterword: Money, Debt, and Wealth -- Appendix: The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
Summary Updated and Expanded Edition. Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book. Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future
Analysis miljø
miljø-økonomi
naturressurser
usa
vekst
økonomi
økonomisk
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-520) and index
Subject Common good.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Sustainable development.
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140033 -- 1993-
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006370
United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 -- Economic polity -- 1993-2001
Author Cobb, Clifford W.
Cobb, John B.
LC no. 93024460
ISBN 0807047058