Economics for People and the Planet, James Boyce
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Economics for People and the Planet
Inequality in the Era of Climate Change

Author: James Boyce

Narrator: James Boyce

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 07/12/2021


Synopsis

Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality.Table of contents:Foreword by Manuel PastorPart I:  Rethinking Economics and the EnvironmentChapter 1. Limits to Growth – of What?Chapter 2. The Twin Tragedies of Open AccessChapter 3. Pursuing Profits – or Power? Chapter 4. Rent in a Warming WorldChapter 5. Universal Assets for Universal IncomeChapter 6. Universal Basic Income: Six QuestionsChapter 7. Environmentalism’s Original SinChapter 8. Rethinking Extinction Part II:  Environmental InjusticeChapter 9. Inequality and the EnvironmentChapter 10. Clean Air for AllChapter 11. Letter from FlintChapter 12. Let Them Drink Pollution?Chapter 13. Letter from DelhiChapter 14. Mapping the Environmental RiskscapeChapter 15. Cleaning the Air and Cooling the PlanetChapter 16. The Environmental Cost of InequalityPart III:  Climate PolicyChapter 17. Smart Climate PolicyChapter 18. Truth SpillChapter 19. Four Pillars of Climate JusticeChapter 20. The Perverse Logic of Greenhouse Gas OffsetsChapter 21. Carbon Dividends: Climate Policy as Wealth CreationChapter 22. Keeping the Government WholeChapter 23. Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your HealthChapter 24. Climate Adaptation: Protecting Money or People?Chapter 25. Carbon Dividends and the Green New DealChapter 26. Forging a Sustainable Climate Policy

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