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For the common good : redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future

Title
For the common good : redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future / Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., with contributions by Clifford W. Cobb.
Author
Daly, Herman E.
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, ©1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Cobb, John B.
  • Cobb, Clifford W.
Description
viii, 482 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Economic development > Environmental aspects
  • Environmental policy
  • Sustainable development
  • environmental policy
  • sustainable development
  • Umweltschutz
  • Umweltökonomie
  • Wirtschaftspolitik
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 457-467.
Contents
pt. 1. Economics as an academic discipline. The fallacy of misplaced concreteness in economics and other disciplines -- pt. 2. New beginnings. From academic discipline to thought in service of community -- pt. 3. Policies for community in the United States. Free trade versus community. Population. Land use. Agriculture. Industry. Labor. Income policies and taxes. From world domination to national security -- pt. 4. Getting there. Possible steps. The religious vision. Appendix: The index of sustainable economic welfare.
ISBN
  • 0807047023
  • 9780807047026
  • 0807047031
  • 9780807047033
LCCN
89042591
OCLC
  • ocm20167647
  • 20167647
  • SCSB-9490131
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library