Nature and Wealth [electronic resource] : Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality /
Barbier, Edward.author.
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth. Ending the under-pricing of natural capital and insufficient human capital accumulation is essential to overcoming structural imbalance in modern economies.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The origins of economic wealth -- Natural capital and economic development -- Wealth, structure and functioning of modern economies -- The age of ecological scarcity -- Structural imbalance -- The under-pricing of nature -- Wealth inequality -- Redressing the structural imbalance -- Making the transition -- Conclusion.
Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth. Ending the under-pricing of natural capital and insufficient human capital accumulation is essential to overcoming structural imbalance in modern economies.
Environmental economics.
Macroeconomics.
Schools of economics.
Development economics.
Industrial management—Environmental aspects.
Investment banking.
Securities.
Environmental Economics.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Heterodox Economics.
Development Economics.
Corporate Environmental Management.
Investments and Securities.