Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental consequences. The emerging paradigm for ecological economics championed in this new book recenters the field of economics on the fact of the Earth's limitations, requiring a total reconfiguration of the goals of the economy, how we understand the fundamentals of human prosperity, and, ultimately, how we assess humanity's place in the community of beings.
Each essay in this volume contributes to an emerging, revolutionary agenda based on the tenets of ecological economics and advances new conceptions of justice, liberty, and the meaning of an ethical life in the era of the Anthropocene. Essays highlight the need to create alternative signals to balance one-dimensional market-price measurements in judging the relationships between the economy and the Earth's life-support systems. In a lively exchange, the authors question whether such ideas as "ecosystem health" and the environmental data that support them are robust enough to inform policy. Essays explain what a taking-it-slow or no-growth approach to economics looks like and explore how to generate the cultural and political will to implement this agenda. This collection represents one of the most sophisticated and realistic strategies for neutralizing the threat of our current economic order, envisioning an Earth-embedded society committed to the commonwealth of life and the security and true prosperity of human society.
- Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Jon D. Erickson
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Unfinished Journey of Ecological Economics, by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman
- Part I. Proposed Ethical Foundations of Ecological Economics
- Introduction and Chapter Summaries
- 1. The Ethics of Re-Embedding Economics in the Real: Case Studies, by Peter Timmerman
- 2. Ethics for Economics in the Anthropocene, by Peter G. Brown
- 3. Justice Claims Underpinning Ecological Economics, by Richard Janda and Richard Lehun
- Part II. Measurements: Understanding and Mapping Where We Are
- Introduction and Chapter Summaries
- 4. Measurement of Essential Indicators in Ecological Economics, by Mark S. Goldberg and Geoffrey Garver
- 5. Boundaries and Indicators: Conceptualizing and Measuring Progress Toward an Economy of Right Relationship Constrained by Global Ecological Limits, by Geoffrey Garver and Mark S. Goldberg
- 6. Revisiting the Metaphor of Human Health for Assessing Ecological Systems and Its Application to Ecological Economics, by Mark S. Goldberg, Geoffrey Garver, and Nancy E. Mayo
- 7. Following in Aldo Leopold’s Footsteps: Humans-in-Ecosystem and Implications for Ecosystem Health, by Qi Feng Lin and James W. Fyles
- Part III. Steps Toward Realizing an Ecological Economy
- Introduction and Chapter Summaries
- 8. Toward an Ecological Macroeconomics, by Peter Victor and Tim Jackson
- 9. New Corporations for an Ecological Economy: A Case Study, by Richard Janda, Philip Duguay, and Richard Lehun
- 10. Ecological Political Economy and Liberty, by Bruce Jennings
- 11. A New Ethos, a New Discourse, a New Economy: Change Dynamics Toward an Ecological Political Economy, by Janice Harvey
- Conclusion. Continuing the Journey of Ecological Economics: Reorientation and Research
- List of Contributors
- Index
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