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Author: Herbert Cole Coombs Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521363730 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 196
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The essays in this 1990 book link widely shared environmental concerns to an original and penetrating analysis of contemporary economic trends.
Author: Costas Panayotakis Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) ISBN: 9781552664612 Category : Capitalism Languages : en Pages : 209
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Powerful challenge to the current neoliberal economic orthodoxy. Asserts that economic democracy should be the new guiding principle for humanity.
Author: Bernard Lietaer Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1609942981 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 337
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This study reveals how our monetary system reinforces scarcity, and how communities are already using new paradigms to foster sustainable prosperity. In the United States and across Europe, our economies are stuck in an agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. Yet solutions already exist, not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well. These changes came about not through increased conventional taxation, enlightened self-interest, or government programs, but by people simply rethinking the concept of money. In Rethinking Money, Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne explore the origins of our current monetary system—built on bank debt and scarcity—revealing how its limitations give rise to so many serious problems. The authors then present stories of ordinary people and communities using new money, working in cooperation with national currencies, to strengthen local economies, create work, beautify cities, provide education, and more. These real-world examples are just the tip of the iceberg—over four thousand cooperative currencies are already in existence. The book provides remedies for challenges faced by governments, businesses, nonprofits, local communities, and even banks. It demystifies a complex and critically important topic and offers meaningful solutions that will do far more than restore prosperity—it will provide the framework for an era of sustainable abundance.
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 9780141049199 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity.
Author: Thomas F. Homer-Dixon Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400822998 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
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The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences--contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence, especially in the developing world. Homer-Dixon synthesizes work from a wide range of international research projects to develop a detailed model of the sources of environmental scarcity. He refers to water shortages in China, population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and land distribution in Mexico, for example, to show that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution. He shows that these scarcities can lead to deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, sharpened social cleavages, and weakened institutions. And he describes the kinds of violence that can result from these social effects, arguing that conflicts in Chiapas, Mexico and ongoing turmoil in many African and Asian countries, for instance, are already partly a consequence of scarcity. Homer-Dixon is careful to point out that the effects of environmental scarcity are indirect and act in combination with other social, political, and economic stresses. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated--especially when about half the world's population depends directly on local renewables for their day-to-day well-being. In the next decades, he writes, growing scarcities will affect billions of people with unprecedented severity and at an unparalleled scale and pace. Clearly written and forcefully argued, this book will become the standard work on the complex relationship between environmental scarcities and human violence.
Author: Mario Morino Publisher: Mario Morino ISBN: 098349200X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 179
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Leap of Reason is the product of decades of hard-won insights from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and top social-sector innovators. It is intended to spark the critically important conversations that every nonprofit board and leadership team should have in this new era of austerity. The authors make a convincing case that the nation's growing fiscal crisis will force all of us in the social sector to be clearer about our aspirations, more intentional in defining our approaches, more rigorous in gauging our progress, more willing to admit mistakes, more capable of quickly adapting and improving--all with an unrelenting focus on improving lives.
Author: Ronald C. Griffin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 432
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A comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, for engineers and natural scientists as well as economists, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.
Author: Jessica Cohn Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778742562 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Describes economic scarcity and explains how consumers make economic choices concerning the use and distribution of economically scarce items, including capital and natural resources.
Author: Christopher O. Clugston Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated ISBN: 9781621412502 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 398
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Scarcity is a book about humanity's "predicament" Our persistent utilization of enormous and continuously increasing quantities of finite, non-replenishing, and increasingly scarce nonrenewable natural resources (NNRs) - i.e., the fossil fuels, metals, and nonmetallic minerals that enable our modern industrialized way of life, and that are essential to perpetuating our modern industrialized way of life - is undermining our very existence as a species. Scarcity explores the causes, implications, and imminent consequences associated with humanity's predicament.
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Author: Herbert Cole Coombs
Author: Costas Panayotakis
Author: Bernard Lietaer
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Author: Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Author: Mario Morino
Author: Ronald C. Griffin
Author: Jessica Cohn
Author: Christopher O. Clugston