The Natural Wealth of Nations

by David Malin Roodman

Looking for some concrete proposals about how to clean up the world's environmental problems? In The Natural Wealth of Nations, David Roodman argues that a critical but often overlooked source of solutions lies in the prosaic world of government subsidies and fiscal policy. If governments overhaul how they raise and spend money, they can use the market to protect the environment without hurting economic growth. For starters, why are the world's governments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393318524
• ISBN13: 9780393318524
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Shows how the marketplace can help

Very well researched and well written. Includes a look at the political realities of making changes, something often missing from environmental books.

A significant resource summarizing how environmental goals c

This book is far-reaching and very well written.