Featured Books & eBooks - Markets & Economics
Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm by Call Number: HC79.E5 E25253ISBN: 9780231173438Publication Date: 2015Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences. The emerging paradigm for ecological economics championed in this new book re-centers the field of economics on the fact of the Earth's limitations, requiring a total reconfiguration of the goals of the economy, how we understand the fundamentals of human prosperity, and, ultimately, how we assess humanity's place in the community of beings.
An Introduction to Ecological Economics (2nd Ed) by Call Number: HD75.6 .C6944ISBN: 9781566706841Publication Date: 2014Ecological economics explores new ways of thinking about how we manage our lives and our planet to achieve a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous future. Ecological economics extends and integrates the study and management of both "nature's household" and "humankind's household" and describes new approaches to achieving a sustainable and desirable human presence on Earth.
Post Keynesian & Ecological Economics Confronting Environmental Issues by ISBN: 9781847206688Publication Date: 2009Mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with environmental problems and sustainable development. Building on the strengths and insights of Post-Keynesian and ecological economics and incorporating cutting-edge work in economic complexity, bounded rationality and socio-economic dynamics, this book provides an interdisciplinary approach to deal with a broad range of environmental concerns.
Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics by ISBN: 9781847205476Publication Date: 2007Ecological economics formally emerged in the late 1980s in response to the failure of mainstream economic paradigms to deal adequately with the interdependence of social, economic and ecological systems. Frontier Issues in Ecological Economics focuses on a range of cutting-edge issues in the field of ecological economics and outlines plausible measures to achieve a more sustainable, just, and efficient world for all.
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Daly, Herman. Ecological Economics & Sustainable Development: Selected Essays of Herman Daly. (2007) - eBook
Lawn, Philip. Sustainable Development Indicators in Ecological Economics. (2006) - eBook
Nadeau, Robert. Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, & Human Survival. (2006) - eBook
Halvorsen, Robert & David Layton (Eds.). Explorations in Environmental and Resource Economics: Essays in Honor of Gardner M. Brown Jr. (2006) - eBook
Tisdell, Clement Allan. Economics of Environmental Conservation. (2005) - eBook
Daly, Herman & Joshua Farley. Ecological Economics (2nd Ed): Principles and Applications. (2005) - eBook
Reisch, Lucia & Ige Ropke. Ecological Economics of Consumption. (2004) - eBook
Davidson, Eric. You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as If Ecology Mattered. (2001) - HC59.72.E5D38
Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. (1973 & 1999) - HB171 .S384
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy by Call Number: HN18.3 .F54ISBN: 9781603586467Publication Date: 2016Surviving the Future lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world, one that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivity—"putting the grim into reality"—but on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritage—from Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to Schumacher—Fleming describes a world in which, as he says, "there will be time for music."
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Call Number: HC79.E5 K56ISBN: 9781846145056Publication Date: 2014In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Call Number: HC440.I5 R678ISBN: 9781608463855Publication Date: 2014From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.
The Leap: How to Survive & Thrive in the Sustainable Economy by Call Number: HC79.E5 T87ISBN: 9780307359223Publication Date: 2011The most vital project of the twenty-first century is a shift from our unsustainable way of life to a sustainable one--a great lateral leap from a track headed for economic and ecological disaster to one bound for renewed prosperity. In The Leap, Chris Turner presents a field guide to making that jump, drawing on recent breakthroughs in state-of-the-art renewable energy, clean tech and urban design.
What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism by Call Number: HC79.E5 M329ISBN: 9781583672426Publication Date: 2011This short, sharply argued manifesto tackles the two largest issues of our time: the ecological crisis and the faltering capitalist economy. Environmental and economic scholars Magdoff and Foster contend that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or to rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe miss the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power—no matter how "green"—are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
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Rogers, Heather. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. (2010) - HC79.E5 R6312
Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. (2008) - HC79.E5 S6652
Rempel, Henry. A High Price for Abundant Living: The Story of Capitalism. (2003) - eBook
McDaniel, Carl & John Gowdy. Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. (2000) - eBook
Hawkens, Paul; Amory B. Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution. (1999) - HC106.82 .H39
Anderson, Terry Lee. Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well. (1997) - HC110.E5 A6663
Globalization by Call Number: HF1365 .G5575ISBN: 9781534503861Publication Date: 2018Technological advancements in transportation and communications have increased human contact and trade to an unprecedented degree—a process known as globalization. Because of its numerous economic, social, cultural, and environmental implications, however, perspectives on globalization are split. This introductory collection of essays weighs the costs and benefits of globalization to nations, economies, and cultures.
Globalization and Urbanization by Call Number: HT241 .S67ISBN: 9781442214743Publication Date: 2014During the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities. Scholars have long been fascinated by so-called global cities, world cities, and the urban engines of the global economy. James H. Spencer argues, however, that such an emphasis misses the central fact that urbanization goes well beyond the usual suspects of New York, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai. The author charts urbanization across the Global South and North, resulting in what he describes as a planetary global urban ecosystem. This concept challenges us to realize that in daily life there are similar physical and social ecosystems that make cities more understandable to each other than to their own rural hinterlands. Spencer's vivid case studies of Addis Ababa, Ho Chi Minh City, Honolulu, and New York draw out the commonalities of our intertwined built and social environments and how they express a shared humanity across continents and cultures.
Globalization by Call Number: JZ1318 .S74ISBN: 9781402768781Publication Date: 2010For many scholars and political activists, "globalization” encompasses a variety of economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental practices that have accelerated in the last few decades. Manfred Steger presents globalization in plain, readable English as a multifaceted system encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life. In addition to unpacking the term’s various dimensions, he investigates whether globalization is "good” or "bad”:--a question hotly debated in classrooms, boardrooms, and on the streets.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America by Call Number: GE197 .F76ISBN: 9780374166854Publication Date: 2008In this follow-up to number-one bestseller, The Earth Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the astonishing expansion of the world's middle class through globalization have produced a planet that is "hot, flat, and crowded." Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things--unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green.
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Haugen, David & Rachael Mach (Eds.). Globalization. (2010) - JZ1318 .G5786223
Steger, Manfred. Globalisms: The Great Idealogical Struggle of the Tewnty-First Century. (2009) - HF1379 .S738
Boudreaux, Donald. Globalization. (2008) - eBook
Ervin, Justin & Zachary Smith. Globalization: A Reference Handbook. (2008) - eBook
Friedman, Thomas. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. (2007) - HM846 .F74
Schirm, Stefan (Ed.). Globalization: State of the Arts and Perspectives. (2007) - eBook
Mooney, Annabelle & Betsy Evans (Eds.). Globalization: The Key Concepts. (2007) - JZ1318 .G5645
Miller, Debra (Ed.). Globalization. (2007) - JZ1318 .G563
Conway, Dennis & Nik Heynen (Eds.). Globalization's Contradictions: Geographies of Discipline, Destruction & Transformation. (2006) - eBook
Goldin, Ian. Globalization for Development: Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Policy. (2006) - HF1359 .G653
Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo & Desirée Baolian Qin-Hilliard (Eds.). Globalization: Culture & Education in the New Millennium. (2004) - JZ1318 .G57925
Vertovec, Steven. Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism: Consciousness of Connections. (2003) - eBook
Steger, Manfred. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction. (2003) - JZ1318 .S74
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization & Its Discontents. (2002) - HF1418.5 .S75
Appadurai, Arjun (Ed.). Globalization. (2001) - JZ1318 .G5787
Henderson, Hazel. Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy. (1999) - HF1359 .H458
A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth by Call Number: HC79.E5 F5147ISBN: 9780190605810Publication Date: 2018Over the last decade the concept of green growth - the idea that the right mix of policies, investments, and technologies will lead to beneficial growth within ecological limits - has become central to global and national debates and policy. Daniel J. Fiorino looks at its role in global, national, and local policy making; its relationship to sustainable development; controversies surrounding it (both from the left and right); its potential role in ameliorating inequality; and the policy strategies that are linked with it.
Big World, Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries by Call Number: GF75 .R63ISBN: 9780300218367Publication Date: 2015Johan Rockström and Mattias Klum reject the notion that economic growth and human prosperity can only be achieved at the expense of the environment. They contend that we have unprecedented opportunities to navigate a "good Anthropocene." By embracing a deep mind-shift, humanity can reconnect to Earth, discover universal values, and take on the essential role of planetary steward. With eloquence and profound optimism, Rockström and Klum envision a future of abundance within planetary boundaries--a revolutionary future that is at once necessary, possible, and sustainable for coming generations.
The Age of Sustainable Development by Call Number: HC79.E5 S2155 2015ISBN: 9780231173148Publication Date: 2015In this major new work, Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy-makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post-Carbon Economy by Call Number: HC79.E5 M332ISBN: 9781609804800Publication Date: 2013The Approaching Great Transformation is about the coming shift in how society may think and act in an economic world that’s not dependent on fossil fuels and ceaseless growth. Joel Magnuson outlines real alternatives in pursuit of a more sustainable, stable and just system.
But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Call Number: GE170 .W34ISBN: 9780809052073Publication Date: 2011You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics. The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the planet, is now in the hands of the dismal science. Fortunately, we've been there before. Economists helped crack the acid rain problem in the 1990's (admittedly with a strong assist from a phalanx of lawyers and activists). Economists have helped get lead out of our gas, and they can explain why lobsters haven't disappeared off the coast of New England but tuna is on the verge of extinction. More disquietingly, they can take the lessons of the financial crisis and model with greater accuracy than anyone else the likelihood of environmental catastrophe, and they can help save us from global warming, if only we let them.
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Desha, Cheryl; Karlson Hargroves & Michael Smith. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth From Environmental Pressures. (2010) - eBook
World Bank. World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change. (2010) - HC59.7 .W659
Derber, Charles. Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy. (2010) - HC79.E5 D454
Cook, Jonathan (Ed.) Vulnerable Places, Vulnerable People: Trade Liberalization, Rural Poverty & the Environment. (2010) - eBook
Park, Jacob; Ken Conca; & Matthias Finger. Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability. (2008) - eBook
Nordhaus, William. A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies. (2008) - QC981.8.G56 N667
Basili, Marcello; Maurizio Franzini; & Alessandro Vercelli. Environment, Inequality & Collective Action. (2006) - eBook
Pearce, David (Ed.) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries: Case Studies. (2006) - eBook
Brown, Lester. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. (2001) - HC79.E5 B759
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Security & Sustainability Forum. The Intersection of Financial Risk and Climate Resilience. (2018)
The Green Scorecard: Measuring the Return on Investment in Sustainability Initiatives by Call Number: HD30.255 .P48ISBN: 9781857885545Publication Date: 2010Too many organizations are currently caught in a “green slump,” struggling to engage in sustainability projects and making far less progress than they should be. Some businesses are striving to lead the way by equipping their facilities with new, energy-saving technologies or creating projects that contain post-consumer materials, whereas others may be just now implementing company-wide recycling programs. No matter which green initiative you choose, in order to succeed, companies must adopt a results-based, return on investment (ROI) focus that helps them to identify, develop and implement green projects that add value—from an economic, environmental and societal perspective.
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth & Investment Opportunity by Call Number: TD145 .P46ISBN: 9780060896232Publication Date: 2007Developing clean technologies is no longer a social issue championed by environmentalists; it's a moneymaking enterprise moving solidly into the business mainstream. By highlighting eight major clean-tech sectors—solar energy, wind power, biofuels and biomaterials, green buildings, personal transportation, the smart grid, mobile applications, and water filtration— authors Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder uncover how investors, entrepreneurs, and individuals can profit from this next wave of technological innovation.
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Security & Sustainability Forum. Channeling Philanthropic Capital to Climate Investments. (2018)