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  • Environment, Growth and Development

    The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability

    by Peter Bartelmus ...
    First Published in 2004. Environment, Growth and Development offers a unique analysis of sustainable economic growth and development and the implications for policy and planning at the local, national and global scale. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Sustaining Prosperity, Nature and Wellbeing

    What do the Indicators Tell Us?

    by Peter Bartelmus ...
    This book explores what is needed for an overall evaluation of the prosperity and wellbeing of people within a framework of sustaining the economy, environment and development.The book begins by assessing the validity of available data, indicators and indices in decision and policy making. It describes what the data tell us about the effects of economic activity on the quality of life and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Green Accounting

    Edited by Peter Bartelmus, E.K. Seifert ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Our cherished economic indicators of income, product, consumption and capital fail in taking a long-term view of social progress. They do not account for environmental deterioration, which impairs the quality of life of present and future generations, and hence the sustainability of development. "Greening" the conventional national (and corporate) accounts ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sustainability Economics

    An Introduction

    by Peter Bartelmus ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    The book is a concise introduction to an emerging field within economics. Drawing on numerous disciplines, including environmental science, environmental and ecological economics and optimal growth theory, sustainability remains a hazy and complex subject.The author set out with two objectives: one, to bring some order into the proliferating measures, models and management of sustainability; and ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

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  • The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good

    by Robert H. Frank ...
    Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Rethinking Capitalism

    Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

    Edited by Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato ...
    Series series Political Quarterly Monograph Series
    "Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.”Gillian Tett, Financial TimesFor further information about recent publicity events and media coverage for Rethinking Capitalism please visit http://marianamazzucato.com/rethinking-capitalism/Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated o... ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace at which developing countries grow is largely a function of the pace at which they ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Economics Anti-Textbook

    A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

    by Rod Hill, Tony Myatt ...
    Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body of principles; and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion. The Economics Anti-Textbook argues that this is a myth - one which is not only dangerously misleading but also bland and boring. ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce C. Greenwald ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    "A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D."—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD