The Environmental Endgame : : Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival / / Robert L. Nadeau.
For decades, scholars have warned of an impending global environmental crisis. Yet politicians, particularly in the United States, have consistently shown that they are not taking the threat seriously. Initiatives aimed at protecting the planet are commonly seen as belonging to a category unto thems...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE MAKING OF THE GODGAME: Winners Take All
- 2. GODGAMES AT THE PENTAGON: The New Terms of Human Survival
- 3. A NEW VIEW OF NATURE: Parts and Wholes in Biological Reality
- 4. THE AMAZING GIFT OF LANGUAGE: The Emergence of Fully Conscious Humans
- 5. THE GODS OF THE SOULLESS MACHINE: Newtonian Physics, Metaphysics, and Natural Laws
- 6. THE GOD WITH THE INVISIBLE HAND: Neoclassical Economics and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Physics
- 7. A GREEN THUMB ON THE INVISIBLE HAND: Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics
- 8. AN UNNATURAL RELIGION: The Telos of the Market Consensus
- 9. THE ENDGAME: Resolving the Crisis in the Global Environment
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author