Economics of the Anthropocene Age [electronic resource] /
Figueroa, Adolfo.author.
This book uses Figueroa’s unified theory of capitalism to explain how economic growth has led to a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and it presents a new set of economic principles that are needed in this new age. The policies presented in the book are derived from an empirically corroborated scientific theory. Therefore, this book is unique in its discussion of public policy as the result of scientific knowledge, rather than based on ideology or private interests. In the new epoch we have entered, man is now the main factor in the fate of the Earth, and in social terms, the Anthropocene age also implies a period of high and persistent income inequality in the capitalist system, with the consequence of social disorder. Figueroa considers these conditions and addresses fundamental problems of our time, such as the ideal organization of production and distribution, and the functionality of a zero-growth society. Standard economics would approach these problems under the assumption that we still live in the Holocene age, but in this book, Figueroa both explains and develops new economic principles for this new context.
Includes index.
This book uses Figueroa’s unified theory of capitalism to explain how economic growth has led to a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and it presents a new set of economic principles that are needed in this new age. The policies presented in the book are derived from an empirically corroborated scientific theory. Therefore, this book is unique in its discussion of public policy as the result of scientific knowledge, rather than based on ideology or private interests. In the new epoch we have entered, man is now the main factor in the fate of the Earth, and in social terms, the Anthropocene age also implies a period of high and persistent income inequality in the capitalist system, with the consequence of social disorder. Figueroa considers these conditions and addresses fundamental problems of our time, such as the ideal organization of production and distribution, and the functionality of a zero-growth society. Standard economics would approach these problems under the assumption that we still live in the Holocene age, but in this book, Figueroa both explains and develops new economic principles for this new context.
1. Economic Growth with Social Maladies -- 2. Power Structure and Democracy -- 3. Evolutionary Human Behavior -- 4. Consumerism in the Economic Growth Process -- 5. Individual Freedom and the Common Good -- 6. Anthropocene Age Economics -- 7. New Economic Principles for the Anthropocene Age -- 8. Epilogue.
Economic growth.
Economic theory.
Economic history.
Environmental economics.
Evolutionary economics.
Economic Growth.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
Environmental Economics.
Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.