Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet: The Failure of Mainstream Economists [Paperback]

General introduction   PART I Why are the tools of dominant economists inadequate for ecology   1 Historical presentation of the tools of the dominant economists   2 Theoretical critiques of the tools of dominant economists by other economists   Conclusion of the first part   PART II Why accountants tools are needed to solve ecological problems   3 The birth of modern accounting and its ignorance by most economists   4 The interest of the knowledge of capitalist accounting for an anticapitalist economic revolution   Conclusion of the second part   PART III How to use accounting concepts to rebuild an ecological and humanitarian economy   5 The basic principles of new economics and management: the CARE/TDL model   6 Appliance of the CARE/TDL model to microeconomics: the case of green house gases   7 Application of the CARE / TDL method to national accounts   Conclusion of the third part   PART IV Is there any hope to see the use of The CARE / TDL Model today?   8 The problems of the diversity of environmental (ecological) accounting systems and green finance   9 The current proposals of the experts of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund   Conclusion of the fourth part   General conclusion 

The solutions and tools generally offered to policy-makers on environmental issues most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.

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