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You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as If Ecology Mattered
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You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as If Ecology Mattered Paperback - 2001

by Eric Davidson


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In this lively, concise, and hard-hitting book, Eric Davidson makes available to readers the exciting new ideas of ecological economists, who have been revolutionizing and greening the once "dismal science." Redefining economic concepts to allow for the primacy of our water, air, soil, and forests, he reveals the necessary steps to a genuine, rather than illusory, prosperity. Most estimates of wealth today are based upon gross domestic product, and many economists even see future wealth being created free of the constraints set by natural resources. Eric Davidson, scientist at the famed Woods Hole Research Center, calls such thinking "Marie Antoinette economics" and reveals its grave underlying fallacies. In valuing land or forests, for instance, we tend to discount their future value for our own children; in analyzing costs and benefits, the price of these natural resources upon which we ultimately depend is usually wrong; and damages to these resources are seen as "externalities." Davidson exposes these fallacies and offers a blueprint for a truly sustainable economy.

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Brahimu was the elementary school principal who, for a modest fee, gave me private lessons in French and Swahili in the remote African village where I lived in Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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  • Title You Can't Eat GNP: Economics as If Ecology Mattered
  • Author Eric Davidson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Stated 1st Print
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-04-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780738204871 / 0738204870
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.49 x 0.69 in (21.62 x 13.94 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1490
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Sustainable development, Environmental economics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001094904
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.7

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  • Choice, 10/01/2001, Page 356

About the author

Eric A. Davidson, Ph.D. is a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.
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