For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable FutureWinner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing. |
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I ran into this book in 1994. I was a former US Dept of Energy employee looking for work as a consultant and I concluded that Daly's description of the Sustainable Economic Welfare index was a much more rationale way of describing the economy.
Imagine, the GDP goes UP when there is an environmental disaster. GDP increases when there is an oil spill, 1989 Exxon Valdez and the 2010 BP Oil spill and leak from a deep sea well.
Contents
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines | 25 |
Misplaced Concreteness The Market | 44 |
Misplaced Concreteness Measuring Economic Success | 62 |
Misplaced Concreteness Homo Economicus | 85 |
Misplaced Concreteness Land | 97 |
From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community | 121 |
From Chrematistics to Oikonomia | 138 |
From Individualism to PersoninCommunity | 159 |
Agriculture | 268 |
Industry | 283 |
Labor | 298 |
Income Policies and Taxes | 315 |
From World Domination to National Security | 332 |
Possible Steps | 361 |
The Religious Vision | 382 |
Money Debt and Wealth | 407 |
From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities | 176 |
From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere | 190 |
Free Trade versus Community | 209 |
Population | 236 |
Land Use | 252 |
The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare | 443 |
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Page 17 - None the less, just as it is wrong to withdraw from the individual and commit to the community at large what private enterprise and industry can accomplish, so too it is an injustice, a grave evil and a disturbance of right order for a larger and higher organization to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
Bibliographic information
| Title | For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future Issue 73 of ISSR Library |
| Author | Herman E. Daly |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0807047058, 9780807047057 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development Business & Economics / Environmental Economics Business & Economics / Industries / General |
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