Mark Sagoff

The Economy of the Earth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book about government social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safety and health. The question it poses are: How justified is government in interfering with the wishes of individuals?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780521867559
• ISBN-10: 052186755X
• Artikelnr.: 22949187

Autorenporträt

Mark Sagoff is Interim Director and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. The author of Price, Principle and the Environment (2004), he has published widely in journals of law, philosophy, and the environment. Dr Sagoff was named a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment in 1991 and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1998. He is also a fellow of the Hastings Center and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. At the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima
or, why political questions are not all economic
3. The allocation and distribution of resources
4. Values and preferences
5. Can we put a price on nature's services?
6. Do we consume too much?
7. Is an environmental ethic compatible with biological science?
8. Settling America or the concept of place in environmental ethics
9. Natural and national history
10. Environmentalism: death and resurrection.