The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment

by Robert L. Nadeau

Book Overview

Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231127987
• ISBN13: 9780231127981
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher