Green Economics : An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

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ISBN: 9781844075706 | 1844075702
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 3/31/2009

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The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system. The globalized marketplace is the prevailing force in our lives, undermining the real importance of our human communities and our planet. Green Economics argues that society should be embedded within the ecosystem, and that markets and economies are social structures that should respond to social and environmental priorities.

List of Photographs, Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Green Economics: Economics for People and the Planet	p. 1
Why green economics?	p. 2
What is green economics?	p. 5
From economic growth to a balanced economy	p. 9
Why green economics now?	p. 11
Where do we go from here?	p. 13
Theory
Where Did It All Start?	p. 17
Intellectual roots: Greeks, socialists and anarchists	p. 18
Spiritual dimensions	p. 19
Key figures and ideas	p. 21
Challenging economics in the academy	p. 30
Economics and Identity	p. 35
Sustainability values, not monetary value	p. 35
The guiding vision: Balance, not growth	p. 38
Economics and relationship	p. 41
Re-embedding economics in nature	p. 45
Not squaring the circle but closing the loop	p. 47
Vision for the Future
Work	p. 55
Will a green economy mean more work or less?	p. 56
Whose work is it anyway?	p. 59
Deskilling and reskilling	p. 61
Greening production and distribution	p. 64
Money	p. 71
The politics of money	p. 72
Money and global injustice	p. 74
Money creation: Financially and ecologically unstable	p. 77
How money wastes people	p. 79
Local currencies for a localized world	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 85
Green Business: From Maximizing Profits to a Vision of Conviviality	p. 89
Limitations of market and technological solutions	p. 90
Issues of scale and ownership	p. 92
Learning to switch the lights off	p. 95
Low-carbon growth as the flourishing of the convivial economy	p. 98
Policies for a Green Economy
The Policy Context	p. 105
The ecological modernization discourse	p. 106
Policy responses to climate change	p. 109
What's wrong with GDP?	p. 113
Measuring what we value	p. 116
Globalization and Trade	p. 123
Whose comparative advantage?	p. 124
How free is free trade?	p. 126
Trade in the era of climate change and peak oil	p. 129
Greening trade locally	p. 131
Greening trade globally	p. 134
Relocalizing Economic Relationships	p. 139
Localization to replace globalization	p. 139
Political protection for local economies	p. 142
Self-reliant local economies on the ground	p. 144
The next step: The bioregional economy	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 153
Green Taxation	p. 157
Theory of green taxation	p. 157
Strategic taxation	p. 160
Taxes on commons	p. 162
Ecotaxes	p. 164
Green Welfare	p. 171
Green approaches to social policy	p. 171
What is poverty? What is welfare?	p. 173
Sharing the wealth; sharing the poverty	p. 176
What is the welfare state?	p. 179
Citizens' Income and people's pensions	p. 181
A health service, not an illness service	p. 183
Land and the Built Environment	p. 187
Land and economics	p. 187
Taxing land	p. 190
Building on land	p. 193
Growing on the land	p. 197
Summary and Further Resources	p. 205
Index	p. 219
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