Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
According to Richard Stroup, the protection of the environment can be safely left to the operation of capital markets and “shareholder power.”
This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region’s meaning on the larger stage of national life.
Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades.
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.
Schmidt outlines the meaning and main phases of “economization” as a civilizing process, arguing that “ecologization” ’ of the current political-economic regime can be regarded as a continuation of this development. Due attention is given to the social conditions which may be favourable or impedimental to an ecologization of the economy. This article asks that environmental policies use the so-called trickle-down effect to their advantage.
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
Mark Sagoff discusses the four dogmas of environmental economics.
Bryan G. Norton makes a case for why economists must engage in interdisciplinary work that will clarify how preferences in relation to the environment are formed, criticised, and reformed.
Richard Cookson examines Sagoff’s criticisms of “Four Dogmas of Environmental Economics” (Environmental Values, Winter 1994) and argues that none of them are fatal.