Green Capital : : A New Perspective on Growth / / Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet.

Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and bio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Color of Growth
  • 2 The Spaceship Problem
  • 3 Degrowth
  • 4 Introducing the Environment into the Calculation of Wealth
  • 5 “Natural Capital” Revisited
  • 6 Hotelling
  • 7 Nature Has No Price
  • 8 Beyond Hotelling
  • 9 Water, the Shepherd, and the Owner
  • 10 How Much Is Your Genome Worth?
  • 11 The Enhancement of Biodiversity
  • 12 Climate Change
  • 13 International Climate Negotiations
  • 14 The “Energy Transition”
  • 15 The Inescapable Question of the Price of Energy
  • 16 Nuclear Energy
  • 17 Growth-Generating Innovations
  • 18 Planning or the Market
  • 19 European Strategy
  • Conclusion: Green Capital, Green Capitalism?
  • Notes
  • Index