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A Survey of Sustainable Development
This work is the expressly-environmental bookend to the "Frontier Issues in Economic Thought" series. The purpose of this volume is to synthesise and synopsise the key work from …
Survey of Sustainable Development
Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity's future have focused on the concept of "e;sustainable …
Survey of Ecological Economics
The emergent discipline of ecological economics is based on the idea that the world's economies are a function of the earth's ecosystems -- an idea that radically reverses the …
Human Well-Being and Economic Goals
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "e;ideal producer"e; and the utility-maximizing …
Consumer Society
The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily …