ISBN:
9781663727398
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1663727392
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (1 audio file (13 hr., 29 min.))
Edition:
[First edition].
DDC:
780.932/36109064
Keywords:
Environmental economics
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Sustainable development Finance
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Environmental policy Economic aspects
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Climatic changes Risk management
;
Audiobooks
Abstract:
In Pricing the Priceless, renowned environmental strategist, speaker, world traveler, and author Paula DiPerna brings a unique voice and optic to demystify and unveil today's most fascinating financial disruption-pricing the priceless to flip conventional ideas of how we value natural assets and why. She asks the provocative question long ignored: Why do we value the indispensable atmosphere at zero, but dispensable production in the trillions? She digs into alternatives, with real-life examples from around the globe of fascinating and pioneering financial innovations. With power, clarity, and real-world experience, the author also examines: fascinating new financial inventions and experiments-insurance, bonds, markets, investment funds-all aimed at pricing what is precious and vital to human well-being; how the great current intergenerational shift in wealth and attitudes is redefining investment trends and the idea of what constitutes wealth and return; how climate change and other urgent environmental problems now require entirely new financial thinking to trigger solutions; how once-radical ideas about measuring economic progress are now reimagining the very purpose of capitalism; and why finance needs critical reinvention to remain credible in the face of increasing public skepticism of business-as-usual economic practice.
Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (O'Reilly, viewed July 25, 2023)
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