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The Wealth of Nature : How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment by Robert L. Nadeau is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This provocative book explains why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in the global environment. Nadeau demonstrates that the myth that neoclassical economic theory is a science has blinded us to the fact that this theory does not account for the environmental impacts of economic activities or posit viable economic solutions to environmental problems. The unfortunate result is that the manner in which we are now coordinating global economic activities is a program for ecological disaster. Nadeau argues that we must develop and implement an environmentally responsible economic theory and describes how this can be accomplished. Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that our failure to recognize and deal with this fact constitutes the greatest sin

Who reads The Wealth of Nature : How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment?

Author

Robert L. Nadeau

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231127998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Management, Business