Download or read book The Little Big Number written by Dirk Philipsen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more cars, more accidents; more lawyers, more trials; more extraction, more pollution--all count as success. Sustainability and quality of life are overlooked. Losses don't count. GDP promotes a form of stupid growth and ignores real development.How and why did we get to this point? Dirk Philipsen uncovers a submerged history dating back to the 1600s, climaxing with the Great Depression and World War II, when the first version of GDP arrived at the forefront of politics. Transcending ideologies and national differences, GDP was subsequently transformed from a narrow metric to the purpose of economic activity. Today, increasing GDP is the highest goal of politics. In accessible and compelling prose, Philipsen shows how it affects all of us. But the world can no longer afford GDP rule. A finite planet cannot sustain blind and indefinite expansion. If we consider future generations equal to our own, replacing the GDP regime is the ethical imperative of our times. More is not better. As Philipsen demonstrates, the history of GDP reveals unique opportunities to fashion smarter goals and measures. The Little Big Number explores a possible roadmap for a future that advances quality of life rather than indiscriminate growth."--

Download or read book Citizens Income and Green Economics written by Clive Lord and published by Green Economics Institute Reading. This book was released on 2012 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface This book is written for those who do not yet share a Green world view, but who do have stirrings of unease that we are not looking after the Planet as well as we ought. It is also written for others who share the author's concerns but who have chosen different paths and strategies. Intended as part of a series under the auspices of the Green Economics Institute, it is hoped that it will operate in tandem with the much more ambitious work being undertaken, for example to find methods of measuring the economy better suited to ecological criteria than those in use since the end of the second world war. A two stage strategy is envisaged: in the first instance it is hoped that academics and opinion formers will use the message contained in this book as the basis for their work towards a sustainable society and economy, but ultimately that message needs to reach a much wider audience if the necessary cultural shift world-wide is to occur before the dangers of which scientists warn us become a reality. This book makes as few philosophical assumptions as possible. It offers a new insight, albeit at a fairly superficial level, based on the 'Deep Ecology' tenet that we should model society on tribes who live in harmony with their surroundings, but this is confined to one aspect of society. On the other hand it is 'market' oriented only in the sense that since the market is dominant, that is where one must start, willy nilly. It is a part of my claim that the ideas in this book may help other norms to emerge. It is assumed that economics will and should remain as part of the ecological decision making process, but that its current dominance must cease. Some of the steps in my reasoning are intuitive rather than based on evidence. Mostly they depend on ideas, indeed sea-changes in ideas for which there can be no evidence in advance. This book attempts to weave several different strands whose importance is only apparent when considered together. The pace of change in the debate on threats to global sustainability is

Download or read book Money for everyone written by Malcolm Torry and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book analyzes the social, economic and labor market advantages of a Citizen's Income in the UK. It also contains international comparisons and links with broader issues around the meaning of poverty and inequality, making a valuable contribution to the debate around benefits.

Download or read book Stewardship Economy 7 Series bibliography and further economics written by Julian Pratt and published by Richard Pratt. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some economics explained, economic terms and bibliography. This book provides an introduction for the 'Stewardship Economy' series to some key economic concepts for the non-specialist and lists the references, as far as they are available.

Download or read book Green Economics and Climate Change written by Miriam Kennet and published by Green Economics Institute Reading. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Green Economics and Young People Green Jobs Employment and Education written by Miriam Kennet and published by Green Economics Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Green Economics written by Miriam Kennet and published by Green Economics Institute Reading. This book was released on 2012 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface by Miriam Kennet Green Economics is now firmly a global movement for change in the third millennium. It is an entirely new and exciting discipline, or school, of economics which is based on a completely new assessment of the problems, options and solutions available to society to deal with the challenges of the ever more rapidly changing complex, fragile, and vulnerable physical and social environments. It is the one ray of hope for dealing with the related crises of climate, biodiversity loss, species extinction and the global economic downturn and aiming to preventing poverty and gender imbalance. Green economics reclaims economics from the preserve of purely quantitative measurement, graphs, statistical data and the assumption of homo economicus to create a complex, interdisciplinary, holistic, long term, social science which is informed by qualitative and quantitative data from natural science. Its long-termism describes the evolution of societies within archaeological and palaeontological time frames, which provides a better setting and better tools for understanding such problems as climate change than are offered by current conventions and short term business cycles.

Download or read book Car Safety Wars written by Michael R. Lemov and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.

Download or read book Van Gogh and the Seasons written by Sjraar van Heugten and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the ways van Gogh represented the seasons and the natural world throughout his career The changing seasons captivated Vincent van Gogh (1853–90), who saw in their unending cycle the majesty of nature and the existence of a higher force. Van Gogh and the Seasons is the first book to explore this central aspect of van Gogh's life and work. Van Gogh often linked the seasons to rural life and labor as men and women worked the land throughout the year. From his depictions of peasants and sowers to winter gardens, riverbanks, orchards, and harvests, he painted scenes that richly evoke the sensory pleasures and deprivations particular to each season. This stunning book brings to life the locales that defined his tumultuous career, from Arles, where he experienced his most crucial period of creativity, to Auvers-sur-Oise, where he committed suicide. It looks at van Gogh's interpretation of nature, the religious implications of the seasons in his time, and how his art was perceived against the backdrop of various symbolist factions, antimaterialist debates, and esoteric beliefs in fin de siècle Paris. The book also features revealing extracts from the artist's correspondence and artworks from his own collection that provide essential context to the themes in his work. Breathtakingly illustrated and featuring informative essays by Sjraar van Heugten, Joan Greer, and Ted Gott, Van Gogh and the Seasons shines new light on the extraordinary creative vision of one of the world's most beloved artists.

Download or read book The Green Poetry Book written by Matt Renaldi and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging assumptions about visual and linguistic beauty and their importance above monetary value, status and celebrity.

Download or read book The Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-07-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the official publication for members and member firms of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers (ISVA). The Directory contains the names and addresses of every member, and a complete list of practising firms and commercial concerns with member partners. Each firm entry lists the partners, telecommunications information, their specialisations and a general description of work carried out and history of the firm. There are 3500 firms listed worldwide.

Download or read book Green Economics Reader written by Miriam Kennet and published by Green Economics Institute Reading. This book was released on 2012 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers perspectives from people all over the world, with a variety ofbackgrounds, showing how we can avoid the previous pitfalls of biasedperspectives of economics from power elites. This book is well suited forstudents, campaigners, policy makers, & anyone with an interest in global issues such as environmental change, gender, climate change, biodiversity loss, species extinction, policy, methodology, philosophy of economics, new forms of economics, government in an age of austerity, and responses to energy, jobs and green career challenges.Introduction to Green Economics for the General Reader. Contributed volume with essays, speeches and papers from all over the globe from all walks of life. A really good general introduction.

Download or read book Green Economics Methodology written by Tone Hedvig Berg and published by Green Economics Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Economics for all people everywhere, other species, the planet and its systems. Reforming Economics, scientific conference with exciting innovations and developments in economics. Contested methodologies in current economics disciplines and laying down thefoundation for green economics methodology, data and research.7 Parts.Part 1: Introducing Green Economics : Green economics and what it means by Miriam Kennet, Green Economics: Itsrecent development and background by Miriam Kennet and Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira, The Ten Key Values of GreenEconomics by Miriam Kennet, Jeffrey Turk, Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira.Part 2: Green Economics empirical: How China Greens its Economy by Professor Peter Yang, Strategies for aSustainable City, Thimphu, Bhutam by Jigme Tashi Tsering, Green Development: Modern Service Industry in Tianjin byShuhan Liu, Application of Green Economics in Business and Rural India: methods and tools by Dr. Natalie WestKharkongor, Introduction Green-Economics: Protest and renaissance in social and environmental justice and gender by Miriam Kennet and Michelle Gale de OlivieiraPart 3: Challengers in today's economic methodology: The Tragedy of the commons. Why we are not being carefulenough by Clive Lord, How useful is econometrics for Green economics by Sophie Billington, Cost Benefit Analysis,superficially an elegant tool, but in reality a path t0 wrong decision making by Juliane Göke, Rewriting Economics byEdward Goldsmith, What is Green Economics: a new discipline by Volker Heineman, Method, tools and Instruments by Volker Heineman, Miriam Kennet and Michele Gale de Oliveira.Part 4: Criticism of the traditional theories of Growth, The Green Economy: Rethinking Growth, After RIO + 202012 by Volker Heinemann and Miriam Kennet, What do we mean by ¿growth¿ problems with growth and is a return to¿growth¿ possible in the long term? By Steven MandelPart 5: How to deal with Climate Change and Energy: From Carbon Markets Towards Climate Social Justice by Maria Delfina Rossi, An Introduction to Climate Change by Alan BouquetPart 6: Sustainable development: Creating a sustainable future: transformational learning, ethical inquiry and social enterprise by Bronwen Rees, A thought Experiment: A cultural approach to achieving sustainability by Clive Lord, The South African Millennium Dilemma: Sustainable Development by Mzoxolo Elliot Mbiko, What is possible- precedents for a sustainable world By Clive Lord, Green Economics model and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities for the Initiation of Realistic Policy Responses by Chidi Magnus Onuoha, Toward a new understanding of sustainable development by Igor MakarovPart 7: How to avoid further catastrophic runaway climate change: Ten Key Points on reversing the trend ofClimate Change by Davide Bottos, The Financial Crisis and New Welfare Approaches-Better Perspectives to CreateGreen Economics by Rosita Bujokaite, Global Green Human Being: Concepts and Main issues by Kristina Jociute,Introducing Green Economics: Renaissance, Reform and Methodology. Green Economics a global movement for Change by Miriam Kennet Responses, The Green Economics Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises by MiriamKennet and Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira, Tackling Poverty and Climate Change: an opportunity for China by Sandra Ries,Miriam Kennet and Lu Wei, Health and Well Being in a Polluted Environment: A Case Study of Chronic ObstructivePulmonary Diseases (COPDs) in Selected Citites in England and Wales by Jeffery Sappor

Download or read book Double Lives written by Helen McCarthy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - Herald In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain. Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go. 'Impressive and nuanced' - Guardian 'Brilliant' - Literary Review

Download or read book Green Economics written by Molly Scott Cato and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gloom to Glory written by Indira Dutta and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an insight into the socio-economic profile of tribes in the states of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. It looks into the various facets of the way of living of the tribes dwelling in these states. The effectiveness of tribal development projects in both the states have been analysed on several parameters including Work Participation Rate, literacy, housing and access to portable water, incidence of diseases and nature of employment, etc. It is commendable that Gujarat has fared better in terms of tribal development as a result of constant efforts of the state as well as central government policies. On the other hand Andhra Pradesh still lags far behind in the race. With the active participation of government, people and civil societies we dream of a new dawn for tribal people where they can march from Gloom to Glory with dignity.

Download or read book Schools and Teachers in the Province of Ontario written by Ontario. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: