Economic futures : climate change and modernity /

"The life of our planet has reached a critical stage. Its survival depends on our ability to rethink our relationship with ecology and create a new alternative economy that supports care and sustainability for our planet. This book advocates for economic distribution methods that do not keep pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irwin, Ruth, 1968- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I: alienation from nature: growth and finance
  • Scoping new narratives
  • Modern economic growth
  • Finance and systemic growth
  • Calculation, risk and fear
  • Section II: time and technology
  • Alienation and the simulacra
  • Technology shapes the way people think
  • Ancient technology, time, and debt
  • Thermodynamic economics
  • Section III: foundational entanglement
  • Technology, learning, and dissolving alienation
  • Quantum physics and the ontological turn
  • Postcarbon futures.