Scarcity : : A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis / / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind.
A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity—its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite de...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Beyond One Concept of Scarcity
- 1. Types of Scarcity before 1600
- 2. Cornucopian Scarcity
- 3. Enlightened Scarcity
- 4. Romantic Scarcity
- 5. Malthusian Scarcity
- 6. Socialist Scarcity
- 7. Neoclassical Scarcity
- 8. Planetary Scarcity
- Conclusion: Toward an Age of Repair?
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX