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| Rating | : | 4.29 (726 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0954051033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 490 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"This book is a great technical companion to This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein" according to Amazon Customer. This is a superb and comprehensive book. Having read the proof copy it has helped inform the way in which I have advised on policy and investment support to grow the low carbon economy in derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The book provides immense historical and current social insight into how environment, society and humanity have been and are being excluded from the heart of economics. The text looks at how we can identify and work to address the current psychopathy of markets. This book is a great technical companion t
In the contemporary world this guiding faith in the pursuit of growth is crashing against ecological boundaries. They have recommended brutal policies and sanctified the "invisible hand" of supposedly beneficial markets - while downplaying destruction to communities and environments. For hundreds of years economists have misrepresented the complexity of human psychology and worked with an asocial understanding of wellbeing. They have celebrated wealthy and powerful patrons and turned a blind eye to pervasive elite crime. Originally part of moral philosophy, economics is a 'gospel' that human problems can be trac