The bankruptcy of economics
Subtitle: ecology, economics and the sustainability of the earth
By: Joseph Wayne Smith, Graham Lyons, and Gary Sauer-Thompson.
Contributors: Lyons, Graham.; Sauer-Thompson, Gary.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Sustainable development.; Economics.; Environmentalism.; Ecology.
Description: "This book is concerned with the future of civilization, in particular with the conflict between economic growth and the sustainability of the biophysical life-support systems of the planet."--BOOK JACKET. "This book is a systematic critique of orthodox neoclassical economics, which has supplied a philosophical and ideological frame-work for economic globalization, unending economic growth and the ceaseless exploitation of nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-186) and index.