Miljöekonomi
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Välfärdsstat i förändring : socialpolitiska reformer i Västeuropa på 2000-talet
Häftad, Svenska, 2020
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Välfärdsstat i förändring beskriver Västeuropa under 2000-talet. Författaren strävar efter att fånga huvudmönstren i välfärdsstaternas förändringar och diskuterar också vilka drivkrafterna bakom har varit samt vilka konsekvenser de har fått på den sociala välfärden i Europa. Boken innehåller även en diskussion om de metodologiska och teoretiska utgångspunkter som ligger till grund för välfärdsstatliga analyser och jämförelser. Två budskap är centrala. Det första är att välfärdsstaten och dess förändringar är mångfacetterade fenomen som kan förstås och mätas på olika sätt. Det andra att de västeuropeiska välfärdsstaterna har genomgått, och fortsätter att genomgå, förändringar. Dessa har i många fall inneburit att vi har fått försämrade sociala skyddsnät, men förändringarna har samtidigt inneburit expansion inom andra områden av välfärdsstaten – i första hand de nya sociala riskområden som socialpolitiken riktar sig till. Vi bör därmed kanske förstå välfärdsstatens förändring som en kontinuerlig anpassningsprocess där huvudmålet är att ”rekalibrera” socialpolitiken i förhållande till förändrade behov och förutsättningar. Boken vänder sig i första hand till studerande vid socialvetenskapliga och samhällsvetenskapliga universitets- och högskoleutbildningar i de nordiska länderna, men kan läsas av alla som har ett intresse för välfärdsstatens förändring.
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Hur ska vi använda våra ekonomiska resurser för att skapa förutsättningar för bästa möjliga hälsa? Bör vaccin mot vattkoppor inkluderas i det nationella vaccinationsprogrammet? Hur avgörs om ett nytt läkemedel eller annan medicinsk teknologi bör subventioneras och erbjudas patienter inom det ordinarie sjukvårdsutbudet? Det är för att kunna besvara, eller åtminstone förstå hur vi kan formulera olika svar till dessa frågor, som forskare och praktiker alltmer har börjat intressera sig för hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar. I Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering presenteras de vanligaste metoderna för att genomföra hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar, där kostnaderna med olika interventioner ställs i relation till patientnyttan. Boken är skriven så att det inte ska krävas förkunskaper i ekonomi eller medicin för att kunna tillgodogöra sig innehållet. Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering riktar sig både till studenter inom hälsovetenskapliga och ekonomiska utbildningar och till andra som är intresserade av hur hälsoekonomi och kostnadseffektivitet kan användas för prioriteringsarbete inom hälso- och sjukvården och för folkhälsoarbete.
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Det finns inget stöd hos den svenska befolkningen för en krympande välfärd. Ingen politiker har gått till val på en sådan politik, tvärtom pratar alla partier om satsningar på äldreomsorgen och skolan. Trots det står välfärden inför ständiga besparingskrav. Hur går det ihop?
I den här boken analyserar Niklas Altermark och Åsa Plesner de idéer, ramar och regler som påverkar beslut om välfärden, bortom valslogans och tv-debatter. Ideologi och institutioner bildar tillsammans ett åtstramningspolitiskt kretslopp som systematiskt utarmar välfärdssystemen.
Genom att förstå de mekanismer som ligger bakom nedskärningarna kan vi också hitta en väg ut ur fällan tillbaka till idén om en gemensam välfärd som bygger på insikten om vår delade sårbarhet.
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In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ‘zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for wealthier parts of global society to save time and space at the expense of humans and environments in the poorer parts. We tend to think of the functioning of machines as if it was detached from the social relations of exchange which make machines economically and physically possible (in some areas). But even the steam engine that was the core of the Industrial Revolution in England was indissolubly linked to slave labour and soil erosion in distant cotton plantations. And even as seemingly benign a technology as railways have historically saved time (and accessed space) primarily for those who can afford them, but at the expense of labour time and natural space lost for other social groups with less purchasing power. The existence of technology, in other words, is not a cornucopia signifying general human progress, but the unevenly distributed result of unequal resource transfers that the science of economics is not equipped to perceive. Technology is not simply a relation between humans and their natural environment, but more fundamentally a way of organizing global human society. From the very start it has been a global phenomenon, which has intertwined political, economic and environmental histories in complex and inequitable ways. This book unravels these complex connections and rejects the widespread notion that technology will make the world sustainable. Instead it suggests a radical reform of money, which would be as useful for achieving sustainability as for avoiding financial breakdown.It brings together various perspectives from environmental and economic anthropology, ecological economics, political ecology, world-system analysis, fetishism theory, semiotics, environmental and economic history, and development theory. Its main contribution is a new understanding of technological development and concerns about global sustainability as questions of power and uneven distribution, ultimately deriving from the inherent logic of general-purpose money. It should be of interest to students and professionals with a background or current engagement in anthropology, sustainability studies, environmental history, economic history, or development studies.
Cost Effectiveness Modelling for Health Technology Assessment
A Practical Course
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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This book provides an introduction to decision analytic cost-effectiveness modelling, giving the theoretical and practical knowledge required to design and implement analyses that meet the methodological standards of health technology assessment organisations.
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'A clear vision for a profoundly different economy' Irish TimesOne of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or Die, French economist Timothée Parrique brilliantly challenges this myth, demonstrating how producing more won't solve climate change, poverty, or inequality. In fact, our obsession with growth is accelerating social and ecological collapse.Parrique proposes a different vision - a "post-growth" economy, where we look beyond the vagaries of GDP and measure our economies through how well we provide for each other. Instead of infinitely accumulating wealth, our goal must be a just, equitable, and sustainable society. Accessible and inspiring, Slow Down or Die is a radical call to embrace a future of shared prosperity, where slowing down is the key to a better, sustainable future.
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Nordic Capitalism shows how democratic capitalism supports freedom, shared prosperity, and sustainability through a comparative analysis of Nordic and American capitalisms. Drawing on real-world examples and personal experience, Robert Gavin Strand distills ten core lessons from the Nordic context to advance a more just, dignified, and sustainable form of capitalism. He examines how Nordic nations consistently lead in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rankings and societal well-being indicators, and how Nordic companies frequently top sustainability and stakeholder performance rankings. Challenging the assertion that there is 'no alternative' to American-style capitalism rooted in neoliberalism, he dispels the mischaracterization of Nordic societies as 'socialist.' Blending rigorous scholarship with compelling storytelling, this book speaks to scholars, business leaders, policymakers, students, and concerned citizens. The Nordic variety of capitalism serves as a North Star - offering practical guidance and hope for realizing sustainable capitalism. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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A firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forest management, investment, policies, and practices. Forest Economics covers the basic economic concepts, principles, and constructs and shows how these are applied in private and public forestry decision making.This comprehensive edition contains up-to-date data, examples, and applications of economic principles, along with literature and study questions, and additional valuable content in several key areas:forest finance and forestland investment/ownership, including financial economic modelssimple interest rate and risk measurementsmarket distortionconsumer theorypriced non-timber values and payment for ecosystem servicesland rent theorythe economics of forest management planning and forest health/wildfire economicsan international comparison of forest taxes and feesproperty rights beyond the private/public ownership binarythe measurement of competitiveness in international tradea new theory of foreign direct investment.The advanced empirical presentation and keen attention to new developments in the field reflect the authors' decades of teaching experience in the United States and Canada. Forest Economics is quite simply indispensable.
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The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them. Combining the voices of leading academics as well as climate change and environmental activists, entrepreneurs and investors, the book highlights the urgent action that needs to be taken to foster sustainable, resilient and inclusive development in the face of powerful systemic forces. Chapters look ahead to a better path for human wellbeing, security and dignity, offering insight to ways this can be created. The book as a whole shares the visions and hopes of those fighting in a myriad of ways to make a sustainable world, attempting to tip the balance away from the crushing loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels and increasing global mean temperature, whilst increasing living standards across all dimensions, particularly for the poorest people. An imperative read for those concerned about the future of our planet, this book showcases not only why urgent action is now imperative, but also what changes are necessary for a sustainable, resilient and equitable world. It offers crucial insights for those interested in the dynamics of political action, in how change occurs, and in effective communication. Environmental economics, as well as environmental studies and human geography students and scholars more broadly will find this an invigorating read.
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"There are several books on the market now that claim to take readers into the intricacies of health economics 'from first principles'. To me, this book succeeds better than any." Gavin Mooney, Honorary Professor, University of Sydney and University of Cape Town; Visiting Professor, Aarhus University, the University of New South Wales and the University of Southern Denmark
"This book would be an excellent choice for anyone wishing to be introduced to the field of health economics – it is undoubtedly the best ‘Health Economics 101’ textbook around ... There is a desperate need for a greater understanding of health economics principles among health system policy-makers, managers and researchers; this book will contribute enormously to developing such understanding." Professor Di McIntyre, South African Research Chair of Health and Wealth, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town
This practical text offers the ideal introduction to the economic techniques used in public health and is accessible enough for those who have no or limited knowledge of economics. Written in a user-friendly manner, the book covers key economic principles, such as supply and demand, healthcare markets, healthcare finance and economic evaluation.
The book has been thoroughly updated with new material reflecting important recent developments and policy shifts such as the rise of performance based funding in health care, the impact and cost of achieving universal health care and the growing effect of globalization and international trade on the health sector.This engaging new edition features:
Extensive use of global examples from low, middle and high income countries, real case studies and exercises to facilitate the understanding of economic conceptsA greater emphasis on the practical application of economic theories and concepts to the formulation of health policyNew chapters on macroeconomics, globalization and health and provider paymentsExtensively revised chapters on demand and supply, markets and economic evaluationIntroduction to Health Economics 2nd edition is the ideal companion text for students, public health practitioners, policy makers, managers and researchers looking for a greater understanding of health economics principles.Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
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Solpaneler och elbilar framställs ofta som avgörande faktorer i omställningen till ett klimatanpassat samhälle, som om omställningen bara skulle vara en fråga om att byta teknik. Det är lätt att glömma att det faktiskt är priserna på arbete och resurser i olika delar av världen som gör solpanelerna och elbilarna möjliga till att börja med. Vi är kort sagt lika förblindade av vår teknik som av våra konsumtionsvaror. Vi ser föremålen men inte hur mycket lågavlönat arbete och skövlad natur som de står för. När vi konsumerar – alltså metaforiskt äter – varorna förtär vi andra människors livsenergi. I "Kannibalernas maskerad" anlägger humanekologen Alf Hornborg ett antropologiskt perspektiv på hela resurs- och omställningsproblematiken och visar hur pengar och teknik i själva verket fungerar som raffinerade metoder för att tillägna sig andra människors tid och naturresurser. Både ekonomer och ingenjörer lever med den moderna synvillan att ekonomin kan bortse ifrån naturen medan tekniken handlar om fysiska ting som inget har med världssamhället att göra. Denna synvilla utmanas alltmer av antropocen – den nya tidsålder då människors verksamhet påverkar hela jordklotet. Kan vi tygla vår rovdrift på varandra och planeten genom att utforma våra pengar på nya sätt? Kan vi föreställa oss en ekonomi som tar hänsyn till människor och miljö bortom vår horisont? Kan vi genomskåda vår tids magi? Alf Hornborg är antropolog och professor i humanekologi vid Lunds universitet. Han har publicerat en rad böcker på engelska. På Daidalos har han tidigare givit ut "Myten om maskinen" (2010) och "Nollsummespelet" (2015).
Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World
Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
372 kr
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An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism For two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land by preventing forest clearing for agricultural expansion, has dominated tropical forest conservation. Land sparing policies transform landscapes and livelihoods with the promise of reconciling agricultural development with environmental conservation. But that land sparing promise is false. Based on six years of research on agrarian frontiers in Indonesia, Brazil, and Bolivia, this book traces where and how land sparing becomes policy and charts the social and ecological effects of these political contests. Gregory M. Thaler explains why land sparing appears successful in some places but not in others and reveals that success as an illusion achieved by displacing deforestation to new frontiers. The failure of land sparing exposes a harsh truth behind assurances of green capitalism: capitalist development is ecocide.
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There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren’t many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer’s Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically informed and nuanced way. It also covers a range of relatively neglected issues in animal ethics, such as the possibility of insect sentience and the ethics of dealing with pests. Finally, the book doesn’t assess every current practice using standard ethical theories, but tries to evaluate some of them using the moral frameworks endorsed by those involved. So, for instance, there is a chapter on the way that animal care and use committees try to justify some of the educational uses of animals, and the chapter on zoos considers the way that international zoological societies justify compromising animal welfare. The book wraps up with a discussion of the future of animal ethics. Each chapter opens with a helpful initial overview of the chapter and ends with a list of suggested readings to help students go further on their own.Key Features:Covers animal ethics from an empirically informed perspective, bringing philosophy into conversation with key issues in animal science, conservation biology, economics, ethology, and legal studies, among other fieldsProvides ample coverage of the most salient current topics, including, for example:Debates about which animals are sentientThe suffering of wild animalsResearch ethicsThe boundaries of activism Avoids suggesting that animal ethics is simply the practice of applying the right general theory to a problem, instead allowing readers to first work out the specific costs and benefits of making ethical decisionsImpresses upon the reader the need for her to work out for herself the best way forward with difficult ethical issues, suggesting that progress can indeed be madeIncludes summaries and recommended readings at the end of each chapter
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'Rigorously argued and radically hopeful' - Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism'Indispensable ... resets the terms of left debate' - Jodi Dean, author of Capital's GraveCapitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Through this system’s pursuit of profits, we have been put on a collision course with social and ecological limits that can no longer be ignored.We need an alternative. We need radical abundance. A world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production. But radical abundance can’t just be voted into existence through parliamentary means, it must be made by taking control of our collective reproduction in the here and now.Packed with fascinating research and real-life examples of communal planning and resistance, this book will convince you that a better future is possible, if we want it.
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Att förhindra omfattande klimatförändringar och en ekologisk kollaps samtidigt som miljarder människor ska lyftas ur fattigdom ställer nya krav på ekonomin. Boken presenterar de planetära gränserna, Agenda 2030, miljöekonomi och ekologisk ekonomi. Kopplingen mellan ekonomisk tillväxt och hållbar utveckling diskuteras liksom aktuell forskning om resiliens, socialt kapital och entreprenörskap.Hållbar utveckling och ekonomi - inom planetens gränser vänder sig till dig som studerar på utbildningar inom ekonomi, miljövetenskap och utvecklingsstudier samt till andra som är intresserade av ekonomins roll i arbetet mot en hållbar utveckling. Boken inleds med ett förord av Johan Rockström, professor i miljövetenskap, tidigare chef för SEI och Stockholm Resilience Centre. I dag är han chef för Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value natureCapitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. To understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, she contends, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. To help us do so, Battistoni recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light.Battistoni addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry, pollution in the environment, reproductive labor in the household, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers, including Friedrich Hayek, Simone de Beauvoir, Garrett Hardin, Silvia Federici, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts.
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The book Corporate Taxation and Social Responsibility explains the bases for the polarized positions in the debate on multinational corporate tax strategies. Based on legal theory, political philosophy, and international tax law, the authors find strong arguments to require corporate executives to carry out their tax strategies in a responsible way, that is, in a way that is difficult to criticize with ethical arguments. International tax strategies such as debt-push-down and the double-Irish-with-a-Dutch-sandwich are analyzed and discussed in relation to anti-avoidance regulations and possible legal applications. The concepts of social responsibility and business ethics are discussed in depth and related to corporate tax. In short, this book explains in a simple and accessible manner the challenges facing today's international tax regime, and it presents possible solutions to meet these challenges.
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Hur ska man göra för att trygga en god levnadsstandard för människor? Vem ska ha ansvaret för välfärden? Vad ska trygghetssystemen omfatta och vilka nivåer ska de ha? Vilka krav ska ställas på människor för att de ska få tillgång till olika socialförsäkringar?
Vi kommer alla i kontakt med samhällets välfärdssystem. Vid födseln genom barnbidrag och stöd till föräldrarna, under livets gång kanske genom arbetslöshetsförsäkring och föräldrapenning och senare pension. Många av oss behöver också kommunal äldrevård vid slutet av livet. Alla dessa välfärdssystem tas upp i denna rikt illustrerade antologi.
Det har länge saknats en sammanhängande beskrivning av framväxten av svensk välfärdspolitik och av de problem vi står inför i dag. Tanken med denna antologi är att råda bot på detta, genom att låta forskare från olika ämnesdiscipliner – historia, idéhistoria, ekonomisk historia, statsvetenskap, nationalekonomi, sociologi, socialpolitik och socialt arbete – utifrån sina olika perspektiv belysa förutsättningarna för framväxten och utvecklingen av svensk välfärd.
Boken vänder sig till en bred allmänhet, men också mer specifikt till dem som arbetar inom samhällets välfärdssystem, till forskare och till studenter vid universitet och högskolor som ska arbeta inom någon av välfärdens professioner.
Om författarnaHans Swärd är professor i socialt arbete vid Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. Hans forskning är framför allt inriktad på sociala problem, fattigdom, utsatta grupper och socialt arbete. Han har medverkat i flera forskningsprojekt om hemlöshet och är för närvarande engagerad i en nordisk studie om socialarbetares attityder till välfärd och socialt arbete. 6000 nordiska socialarbetare ingår i studien.
Per Gunnar Edebalk är fil. dr i ekonomisk historia och professor vid Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. Hans forskningsområden omfattar äldreomsorgens ekonomi och historia samt socialförsäkringshistoria.
Eskil Wadensjö är nationalekonom, professor i arbetsmarknadspolitik vid Institutet för social forskning (SOFI) vid Stockholms universitet sedan 1980. Han var dekan vid för den samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Stockholms universitet 1996–2005. Han är föreståndare för Stockholmsuniversitets Linnécentrum för integrationsstudier (SULCIS).
”Här redovisas fakta, tankar och idéer på alla välfärdsområden på ett mycket klargörande sätt. Bra hänvisningar till referenslitteratur efter varje artikel ger goda möjligheter till ingång för vidare studier. Texterna är tillgängliga för den allmänt samhällsintresserade, men torde främst rikta sig till forskare och studerande vid universitet och högskolor. Prydlig layout, med rikligt med fotografier i färg och svartvitt, samt många tydliggörande diagram ledsagar de välskrivna texterna.” - BTJ häfte 13108173 Lektör Håkan Philipsson
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I en tid då megatrender som klimatförändringar, pandemier, flyktingströmmar och demografiska förändringar visar på världens sårbarhet finns det anledning att fundera över hur det vi kallar välfärd varit, är och kommer att bli.I den här boken sätter vi spaning på styrning, organisering och ledarskapande inom välfärden och hur det tar sig uttryck i olika verksamhetsområden och sammanhang. Det övergripande syftet är att genom ett antal spaningar på aktuella företeelser och observationer med fokus på hur olika välfärdsverksamheter styrs, organiseras och leds presentera reflektioner om framtidens utmaningar och möjliga lösningar. Analyser och reflektioner görs utifrån olika vetenskapliga perspektiv och med teman för en hållbar framtid.Boken vänder sig till dig som ställer dig undrande över vart välfärden är på väg. Författarna har i första hand haft personer som använder sig av olika välfärdstjänster, professionella som arbetar i välfärden, politiker med intresse av välfärden samt studenter som har en framtid inom välfärden i åtanke. Framtidens välfärd – hållbar styrning, organisering och ledning öppnar för en diskussion om att framtidens välfärd även berör andra grupper.
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A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is much bigger than the dollar value of things we buy and sell. It depends on us—our health, our creativity, and our moral commitments. These capabilities don't have price tags but are crucial to a sustainable future. We need to acknowledge and reward the value of caring for ourselves and others, especially our children, our elderly, and those experiencing illness or disability. From leading feminist economist Nancy Folbre, Making Care Work provides a compelling historical and economic account of care provision in the United States. Folbre traces the long and colorful history of resistance to bogus claims that only paid work "counts" and that employees in care services are always paid what they deserve. Explaining why care providers remain economically vulnerable today, she argues that more attention to the public benefits of care provision could help build the political coalitions needed to implement policies that put people first. In this comprehensive and bold book, Folbre upends conventional economic thinking and maps a hopeful path toward a more equitable and sustainable economy.
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A Guardian book to look out for in 2024An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.In his newest work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civilisational, and religious developments. So it is culture in the broadest sense that makes it possible to explain the diversity, extent, and structure of the social inequality that we observe every day.Piketty briefly and concisely presents a lively synthesis of his work, taking up such diverse topics as education, inheritance, taxes, and the climate crisis, and provides exciting food for thought for a highly topical debate: Does natural inequality exist?
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This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat.Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers.The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work - the principles 20th century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.
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With clarity, conscience, and courage, global-systems pioneer Jorgen Randers and his distinguished contributors map the forces that will shape the next four decades.Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic "overshoot and collapse"-or through well-managed "peak and decline."So, where are we now? And what does our future look like? In the book 2052, Jorgen Randers, one of the coauthors of Limits to Growth, issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well-being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways-by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming, too, is likely.So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact, and wisdom, Randers guides us along a realistic path into the future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the next forty years.
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Finance. Climate. Food. Class. How are the crises-and politics-of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing planetary life. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of power, profit, and life.
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In Hot Money Naomi Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate, and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we must change everything we think about how our world is run.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx's thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. Marx even called Capital a study of natural history.
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'the most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need... by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute - and in doing so, save ourselves.' - David Attenborough'This is the best book in economics for a general reader since Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.' - Paul R Ehrlich'Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn't count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognizing it...'For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture.The models and metrics tells us that our economies are healthy because they are growing. However, this doesn't account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for free and treat as infinite: nature. For centuries we have been using it as if it were both, but we know now, more than ever, that our demand on the natural world is unsustainable. It's no longer sufficient to only see part of the picture; it's time that our economic models show us the whole thing.In On Natural Capital, renowned Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta lays out a seminal and groundbreaking new approach to economics. Challenging everything that has come before, he asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else?An urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics, On Natural Capital is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.
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The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing Water 1.0, the early Roman aqueducts, fountains, and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the development of drinking water and sewage treatment systems—the second and third revolutions in urban water. He offers an insider’s look at current systems that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, treatment plants, and storm sewers to provide water that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential reading.
Limits and Beyond
50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions “A one-stop source on global warming, seen through the prism of a brilliant economist.”—Fred Andrews, New York Times Selected as one of the year’s best books by the Financial Times Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.