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Scarcity : a history from the origins of capitalism to the climate crisis / Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind

Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton,i1972- [Verfasser] ; Wennerlind, Carl [Verfasser]

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023

290 Seiten : Illustrationen

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0-674-98708-X ; 978-0-674-98708-1

MS 4745 NW 1650

 

Knappheit  Anthropozän  Wirtschaftsphilosophie  Wachstumspolitik  Hegemonie 

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect nature’s boundaries in the face of climate crisis.