The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the EnvironmentColumbia University Press, 12 черв. 2003 р. - 336 стор. Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that our failure to recognize and deal with this fact constitutes the greatest single barrier to the timely resolution of the crisis in the global environment. |
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... behavior and interaction of the parts. From the perspective of environmentalists, those who adhere to the view of economic reality in mainstream economics fail to realize that the future welfare of the parts (economic actors) is ...
... behavior of parts (economic actors) and perpetuate the orderly existence of wholes (markets), even if the parts are completely unaware that this is a consequence of their actions. Adam Smith's term for the collective action of these ...
... behavior of matter, constitute, said Quesnay, “the general order of the formation of the universe, where everything is foreseen and arranged by the Supreme Wisdom.”2 The order that results from the action of the natural laws is apparent ...
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The Neoclassical Economists and MidNineteenth Century Physics | 37 |
Mainstream Economics and Globalization | 77 |
Environmental Economics | 113 |
Ecological Economics | 133 |
Emerence and a New View of Order | 149 |
Cosmic Connections | 163 |
The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment | 185 |
Science Ethics and the Environmental Crisis | 207 |
Notes | 225 |
Index | 241 |
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