Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization
Designing the Green Economy explores realistically, and in detail, the worldOs enormous potential for human and ecological regeneration. It also explains why this potential has been suppressed or distorted by industrial institutions_thus creating economic crisis, growing inequality, and environmental destruction. The first half of the book looks at the challenge ecological change has represented to capitalism, as well as capitalismOs repressive response: the waste economy, as expressed in postwar Fordist capitalism and current trends toward a globalized economy. But today Othe great divideO between waste and green economies can be narrowed by emerging legal, institutional, and market approaches to production and environmentalism. In Part II, Milani explores the practical and theoretical implications of fully unleashing these new productive forces to create community-based ecological economies. Milani argues that neither sustainability, social justice nor economic stability can be secured without comprehensive redesign of the economy along ecological principles. It looks at key sectors of the economy_including manufacturing, energy, and money and finance_to illustrate how this redesign can, and is, taking place through both incremental grassroots initiatives and transformative politics.
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Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization
Designing the Green Economy explores realistically, and in detail, the worldOs enormous potential for human and ecological regeneration. It also explains why this potential has been suppressed or distorted by industrial institutions_thus creating economic crisis, growing inequality, and environmental destruction. The first half of the book looks at the challenge ecological change has represented to capitalism, as well as capitalismOs repressive response: the waste economy, as expressed in postwar Fordist capitalism and current trends toward a globalized economy. But today Othe great divideO between waste and green economies can be narrowed by emerging legal, institutional, and market approaches to production and environmentalism. In Part II, Milani explores the practical and theoretical implications of fully unleashing these new productive forces to create community-based ecological economies. Milani argues that neither sustainability, social justice nor economic stability can be secured without comprehensive redesign of the economy along ecological principles. It looks at key sectors of the economy_including manufacturing, energy, and money and finance_to illustrate how this redesign can, and is, taking place through both incremental grassroots initiatives and transformative politics.
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Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization

Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization

by Brian Milani
Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization

Designing the Green Economy: The Post-Industrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization

by Brian Milani

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Designing the Green Economy explores realistically, and in detail, the worldOs enormous potential for human and ecological regeneration. It also explains why this potential has been suppressed or distorted by industrial institutions_thus creating economic crisis, growing inequality, and environmental destruction. The first half of the book looks at the challenge ecological change has represented to capitalism, as well as capitalismOs repressive response: the waste economy, as expressed in postwar Fordist capitalism and current trends toward a globalized economy. But today Othe great divideO between waste and green economies can be narrowed by emerging legal, institutional, and market approaches to production and environmentalism. In Part II, Milani explores the practical and theoretical implications of fully unleashing these new productive forces to create community-based ecological economies. Milani argues that neither sustainability, social justice nor economic stability can be secured without comprehensive redesign of the economy along ecological principles. It looks at key sectors of the economy_including manufacturing, energy, and money and finance_to illustrate how this redesign can, and is, taking place through both incremental grassroots initiatives and transformative politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742576759
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/20/2000
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 250
File size: 626 KB

About the Author

Brian Milani is research coordinator for Eco-Materials Project in Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Introduction: Dimensions of Green Economics
Chapter 2 Beyond Materialism: The Post-Industrial Redefinition of Wealth
Chapter 3 Industrialism and Quantitative Development
Chapter 4 Crisis and Waste: Fordism and the Effluent Society
Chapter 5 Post-Fordism: Casino Capitalism and the Production of Illth
Chapter 6 New Productive Forces and Emerging Human Potentials
Chapter 7 The New Ecology of Politics
Chapter 8 Designing the Green Economy
Chapter 9 Eco-Design: Principles of the Green Economy
Chapter 10 The Ecological Space of Flows: The Built-Environment
Chapter 11 Transformative Energy: the Soft Energy Path
Chapter 12 Living in De-Material World: Manufacturing, Resource Use, and the Media
Chapter 13 True Value Software: Regenerative Money and Finance
Chapter 14 The State and Beyond: Post-Industrial Forms of Regulation
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