For the common good: redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future / Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb

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Acknowledgments.. Introduction.. Part One: Economics as an Academic Discipline.. 1 The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines.. 2 Misplaced Concreteness: The Market.. 3 Misplaced Concreteness: Measuring Economic Success.. 4 Misplaced Concreteness: Homo economicus.. 5 Misplaced Concreteness: Land.. Part Two: New Beginnings.. 6 From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community.. 7 From Chrematistics to Oikonomia.. 8 From Individualism to Person-in-Community.. 9 From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities.. 10 From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere.. Part Three: Policies for Community in the United States.. 11 Free Trade versus Community.. 12 Population.. 13 Land Use.. 14 Agriculture.. 15 Industry.. 16 Labor.. 17 Income Policies and Taxes.. 18 From World Domination to National Security.. Part Four: Getting There.. 19 Possible Steps.. 20 The Religious Vision.. Appendix: The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare.. Reference.. Index

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political BookEconomist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future.Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing. eng