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The wealth of nature : how mainstream economics has failed the environment
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- Creator
- Robert L. Nadeau
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xii, 253 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231127981, 0231127995, 9780231507769, 0231507763, 0231127987, 9780231127998
- OCLC
- ocm50906006, ocn979574755, ocn216947045, ocn826476678
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-240) and index.
- Ch. 1. Spaceship Earth: Homo economicus and the Environmental Crisis -- Ch. 2. The Not So Worldly Philosophers: Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics -- Ch. 3. The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Economists and Mid-Nineteenth Century Physics -- Ch. 4. No Free Lunch: Mainstream Economics and Globalization -- Ch. 5. A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand: Environmental Economics -- Ch. 6. Schisms, Heresies, and Keeping the Faith: Ecological Economics -- Ch. 7. The Real Economy in Biology: Emergence and a New View of Order -- Ch. 8. The Real Economy in Physics: Cosmic Connections -- Ch. 9. Toward a New Theory of Economics: The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment -- Ch. 10. The Ceremony of Innocence: Science, Ethics, and the Environmental Crisis