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The business of consumption, environmental ethics and the global economy, edited by Laura Westra and Patricia H. Werhane

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The business of consumption, environmental ethics and the global economy, edited by Laura Westra and Patricia H. Werhane

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

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The business of consumption

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bibliography

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38438500

Responsibility statement

edited by Laura Westra and Patricia H. Werhane

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Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy

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environmental ethics and the global economy

Table Of Contents

Preface / Laura Westra -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: environmental and economic sustainability / Patricia H. Werhane -- Part one: the problem with consumption. Consumption: the economics of value added and the ethics of value distributed / Herman E. Daly ; The need to face conflicts between rich and poor nations to solve global environmental problems / Donald A. Brown ; "The tragedy of the commons" revisited: a game theoretic analysis of consumption / Joel E. Reichart ; Institutionalizing overconsumption / Don Mayer ; Marketing, the ethics of consumption, and less-developed countries / George G. Brenkert ; Reducing the ecological footprint of consumption / William E. Rees ; Who should bear the burdens of risk and proof in changing consumption patterns? / John Lemons -- Part two: solutions to problems of consumption. A nonanthropocentric environmental evaluation of technology for public policy: why Norton's approach is insufficient for environmental policy / Laura Westra ; Consumption and the practice of land health / Eric T. Freyfogle ; Environmental sustainability: eat better and kill less / R. Goodland ; Toward an ethics of consumption: rethinking the nature of growth / Rogene A. Buchholz and Sandra B. Rosenthal -- Part three: consumption and cornucopia. Scarcity or abundance? / Julian L. Simon ; Holes in the cornucopia / Ernest Partridge ; Do we consume too much? / Mark Sagoff -- Part four: consumption and sustainable business. A boat for Thoreau: a discourse on ecology, ethics, and the making of things / William McDonough ; Consuming oneself: the dynamics of consumption / Andrea Larson ; Toward a sustainable tomorrow / Michael E. Gorman...[et al] ; Shades of green: business, ethics, and the environment / R. Edward Freeman...[et al] -- Index -- About the contributors

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