Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind

Gebundenes Buch

Scarcity

A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

Beschreibung

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect natureâ s boundaries in the face of climate crisis.

Autor

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson is Associate Professor of History and of Conceptual and Historical Studies in Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism and, with Vicky Albritton, Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780674987081
• ISBN-10: 067498708X
• Artikelnr.: 65693418