You can't eat GNP : economics as if ecology mattered
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You can't eat GNP : economics as if ecology mattered
（A Merloyd Lawrence book）
Perseus, c2000
- : pbk
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Includes index
"A Merloyd Lawrence book."
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ISBN 9780738202761
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An eye-opening look at the ecological foundations of prosperity.. In this lively, concise, and hard-hitting book, Eric Davidson makes available to readers the exciting new ideas of ecological economists, who have been revolutionizing and greening the once "dismal science." Redefining economic concepts to allow for the primacy of our water, air, soil, and forests, he reveals the necessary steps to a genuine, rather than illusory, prosperity.Most estimates of wealth today are based upon gross domestic product, and many economists even see future wealth being created free of the constraints set by natural resources. Eric Davidson, scientist at the famed Woods Hole Research Center, calls such thinking "Marie Antoinette economics" and reveals its grave underlying fallacies. In valuing land or forests, for instance, we tend to discount their future value for our own children; in analyzing costs and benefits, the price of these natural resources upon which we ultimately depend is usually wrong; and damages to these resources are seen as "externalities. " Davidson exposes these fallacies and offers a blueprint for a truly sustainable economy.
Table of Contents
Whence Comes Wealth? Three Fallacies About Economics Versus the Environment Richland for Dirt CheapTwo Views of the Value of Soil The Price is WrongAdvantages and Dangers of Cost-Benefit Analysis Future Shock DiscountedAnother Devil in the Details of Cost-Benefit Analysis Internalizing the ExternalitiesBuying a Bunch of Blue Sky to Limit Global Warming Global GarbageMalthus Revisited In Search of SustainabilityFrom Small Landholders to Macroeconomists Fill the Earth and Conquer It, but Keep Two of Each SpeciesCan Both Imperatives Be Achieved? May We Live in Interesting TimesSome Modest Proposals for Profound Change
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: pbk ISBN 9780738204871
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"In clear, measured prose Davidson lays out how the traditional tools of economics don't work when you are talking about concrete things like soil, forests, garbage."-Inc.Ecology and economics are not doomed to be adversaries. This lively and concise book presents the exciting new insights of environmental economics as well as the three fallacies of conventional economic analysis. You Can't Eat GNP offers a blueprint for a truly sustainable economy that recognizes the natural resources (like water, air, and soil) on which we ultimately depend.Eric A. Davidson, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research centre. His fieldwork takes him from the Brazilian Amazon to the re-growing forests of New England and he has conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the NASA Ames Research centre.A Merloyd Lawrence Book
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