The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the EnvironmentMark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensive revision of The Economy of the Earth. Posing questions pertinent to consumption, cost-benefit analysis, the normative implications of neo-Darwinism, the role of the natural in national history, and the centrality of the concept of place in environmental ethics, he analyses social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safely and health. Sagoff distinguishes ethical from economic questions and explains which kinds of concepts, arguments, and processes are appropriate to each. He offers a critique 'preference' and 'willingness to pay' as measures of value in environmental economics and defends political, cultural, aesthetic, and ethical reasons to protect the natural environment. |
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... , Carroll Linkins, and our graduate assistant, Jillien Dube, who dealt cheerfully and patiently with the secretarial problems I created in writing and revising this manuscript. I am deeply grateful to good friends outside the Institute, ix.
... , Carroll Linkins, and our graduate assistant, Jillien Dube, who dealt cheerfully and patiently with the secretarial problems I created in writing and revising this manuscript. I am deeply grateful to good friends outside the Institute, ix.
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... problem, which must be understood in economic terms.”28 From this eco— nomic perspective, pollution is to be managed as a misallocation of resources — a failure of the market to allocate them to those who are willing to pay the most for ...
... problem, which must be understood in economic terms.”28 From this eco— nomic perspective, pollution is to be managed as a misallocation of resources — a failure of the market to allocate them to those who are willing to pay the most for ...
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... problem and not primarily as an economic one. At the same time, if society were oblivious to the economic costs of pollution control, it could cause industry to cease; jobs would become scarce and inflation rampant. In 1970, Congress ...
... problem and not primarily as an economic one. At the same time, if society were oblivious to the economic costs of pollution control, it could cause industry to cease; jobs would become scarce and inflation rampant. In 1970, Congress ...
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... problem, as I shall describe it, is this. Conservation biologists and environmental economists seem unable to keep in mind two important but different and separate ideas — the intrinsic value of nature and the performance of the economy ...
... problem, as I shall describe it, is this. Conservation biologists and environmental economists seem unable to keep in mind two important but different and separate ideas — the intrinsic value of nature and the performance of the economy ...
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... problem of energy use and global climate change. The debate over what to do about energy — how to (1) find alternatives to oil, coal, and other carbon-based fuels, (2) burn them far more cleanly and efficiently, and (3) still offer 16 ...
... problem of energy use and global climate change. The debate over what to do about energy — how to (1) find alternatives to oil, coal, and other carbon-based fuels, (2) burn them far more cleanly and efficiently, and (3) still offer 16 ...
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Page 179 - ... eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
Page 187 - ... the inference, we think, is inevitable ; that the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Page 138 - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page 181 - The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God - a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that - and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
Page 150 - I here apply to America may indeed be addressed to almost all our contemporaries. Variety is disappearing from the human race ; the same ways of acting, thinking, and feeling are to be met with all over the world.
Page 138 - Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Page 125 - ... every flowery waste or natural pasture plowed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedge-row or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture.