Economics for People and the Planet

Economics for People and the Planet

by James Boyce
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 16/01/2019

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Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The goal of economic policy should be to grow the good things that improve our well-being and environmental quality and reduce the bad things that harm humans and nature. To reorient the economy for these ends, we will need to achieve a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power. Global climate change – the most pressing environmental challenge of our time – adds urgency to this task and creates historic opportunities for moving towards a greener future. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality. Foreword by Manuel Pastor.

ISBN:
9781783088775
9781783088775
Category:
Environmental economics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
16-01-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Anthem Press
James Boyce

James Boyce is the acclaimed author of Van Diemen’s Land, 1835 and Born Bad.

His books have been shortlisted for almost every major Australian literary award and he has won the Tasmania Book Prize on two occasions.

He is also a professional social worker, who worked for many years in social policy and research and has been involved in the poker-machine debate for nearly twenty years.

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