The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future

by Michael Jacobs

Overview

By showing how environmental concerns can be made central to economic policy, this book aims to fill a critical gap in the literature and create a new economic paradigm. The authors suggest that current contradictions in capitalism are a hopeful sign that change is possible. In the process, they clarify the continuing debates on planning, markets and ownership - and on economic growth and sustainability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745304120
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Publication date:	03/20/1992
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.46(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zoe Young has researched and written about the GEF for several years with the University of Hull, and co-directed the documentary Suits and Savages - Why the World Bank Won't Save the World with Conscious Cinema. More information can be found at www.newgreenorder.info.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Analysis

1. The Economy and the Environmental Crisis

2. Whose Environment?

3. The Invisible Elbow: Market Forces and Environmental Degradation

4. Capitalism, Industrialism and Green Politics

Part II: Objectives

5. Sustainable Development: Beyond 'Zero Growth'

6. Valuing the Environment: The 'Orthodox Economists's' Approach to Environmental Protection

7. Sustainability: Protecting the Future

8. Making Sustainability Operational: The Meaning of 'Environmental Capacity'

9. Environmental Efficiency, Entropy and Energy

Part III: Programme

10. Sustainability Planning

11. Instruments for Environmental Protection

12. Regulations versus Financial Incentives?

13. The Role of Government Expenditure

14. Equity and the Integration of Social and Environmental Policy

15. Global Environmental Economic Policy

Part IV: Measurement

16. Making Environmental Decisions (1): The Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis

17. Making Environmental Decisions (2): Monetary Valuation of the Environment

18. Measuring Success

19. The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

I have not seen one single book on economics and the environment so far, with which I agree so fully and deeply.

Ecological Economics