For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable FutureWinner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future. Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing. |
Contents
First Page | 1 |
Part 1 | 23 |
Part 2 | 119 |
Part 3 | 207 |
Part 4 | 359 |
Afterword | 407 |
Appendix | 443 |
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For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the ... Herman E. Daly Limited preview - 1994 |
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the ... Herman E. Daly No preview available - 2001 |
For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the ... Herman E. Daly No preview available - 1994 |
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