Being Is Enough

Collective Self-Help for a Sustainable World

AvDoug Brown

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Being Is Enough emphasizes that America's "have all you can have" economy, which many now regard as unsustainable, is the result of our "be all you can be" culture. And our cultural imperative suggesting that humans must always be more is not only the social root of humanity's environmental crisis, but also the cause of personal stress.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-11-01
Mått:187 x 227 x 14 mm
Vikt:263 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761832683

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Doug Brown is Professor of Economics at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Professor Brown has been teaching courses in macro and microeconomics and comparative economic systems at NAU for twenty years after having completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Colorado State University.

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[Continuing] the excellent work begun in [his book] Insatiable is Not Sustainable, this time focusing on the stress we cause ourselves and the world around us by accepting a "have all you can have" and "be all you can be" culture…Brown brings fresh insights…and proposes specific reforms needed to democratize our economy.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IllustrationsChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 Part One: You Don't Have to be MoreChapter 5 Part Two: You're a Victim of the SystemChapter 6 Part Three: The System is a Victim of Your AncestorsChapter 7 Part Four: Save the World to Save YourselfChapter 8 ReferencesChapter 9 IndexChapter 10 About the Author