Screen LibraryCapitalism and the environment : a proposal to save the planet /
"Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit s...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism, given up for dead only 30 years ago. Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse, if enacted, will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures - the result of bad decision-making - and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism, capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism, which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108465526 1108465528 9781108474825 1108474829 |
| Index Number: | HD75 |
| CLC: | F061.3 |
| Call Number: | F061.3/H873 |
| Contents: | How capitalism saves the environment -- Capital investments create their own political economy -- Bloated capital : how capitalism went awry -- The case for environmental taxation -- What should be taxed? -- Generating environmental knowledge -- Looking before leaping. |