The Bankruptcy of Economics Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth

Economic globalization--the creation of a one-world economy with the free-flow of capital, goods and services across national boundaries--is eroding the economic sovereignty of nations and producing a trail of unemployment and social turmoil in its wake. Further, the irresistible force of economic globalization is set to crash into the immovable object of the global environmental crisis, producing a breakdown of civilized order in the world and threatening the continuation of human life itself. This book is a systematic critique of orthodox neoclassical economics, which has supplied a philosophical and ideological framework for economic globalization, unending economic growth and the ceaseless exploitation of nature.

Joseph Wayne Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Graham Lyons is a prominent Australian businessman and agriculturist.

Gary Sauer-Thompson is Lecturer in Philosophy at Flinders University of South Australia.