Fraser Murison Smith

Economics of a Crowded Planet

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper? Written mainly for a technical audience, yet accessible to the lay reader, Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology, epistemology and methodology of a future economics as if from outside the economy looking in. It presents a conceptual framework for a future economics drawing from systems science and hierarchy theory, integrating central concepts from present-day economics, so as to orient the field in a direction that can serve society's future needs in practical ways.

The exposition reveals a paradigm called 'market planetarianism': the idea that the power of markets may be used to steer the economy toward a desired long-term goal. Both a prescriptive doctrine and an economic methodology, it treats the economy and nature as instances of complex, evolutionary systems, demanding analytical tools quiteunlike those of the 20th-century mainstream.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-31800-0
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9783030318000
• ISBN-10: 3030318001
• Artikelnr.: 60443842

Autorenporträt

Fraser Murison Smith is an energy specialist in public utilities, formerly an information systems consultant and award-winning cleantech entrepreneur. After completing a PhD in theoretical ecology at Oxford University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in ecological economics. He has published papers on fisheries, biodiversity and economic development, as well as a book, Environmental Sustainability: Practical Global Implications (1997). Fraser and his wife, a healthcare technology leader, share their home in Northern California with two wonderful young children and a canoe and tent on standby for spontaneous forays into the surrounding mountains, rivers and lakes.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Biophysical Context of the Economy.- 3. Simple Physical Model of Nature and Economy.- 4. Subsystem Model of the Economy.- 5. Rationale for an Economics of a Crowded Planet.- 6. Economic Orthodoxy and Emerging Pluralism.- 7. The Economics of Nature.- 8. Conventional Economics On a Crowded Planet.- 9. Framework for an Economics of a Crowded Planet.- 10. Requirements for a Future Economics.