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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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.