Capitalism and the environment [electronic resource] : a proposal to save the planet / Shi-Ling Hsu, Florida State University College of Law.
Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit sociali...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2021.
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| Summary: | Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism, given up for dead only 30 years ago. In Capitalism and the Environment, Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse, if enacted, will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures - the result of bad decision-making - and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism, capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism, which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2021) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 9781108681599 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108681599 |