Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind

A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity--its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.

Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption irrespective of nature's limits. Yet as Fredrik Albritton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067498708X
• ISBN13: 9780674987081
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"