Irene Schoene

Fair Economics (eBook, PDF)

Nature, money and people beyond neoclassical thinking

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Have you ever questioned our economic model? Wondered how the financial crash was able to happen? Thought about what we can do stop it happening again?

Modern economics bases its view of the world on assumptions Adam Smith made about nature and people nearly three hundred years ago, in a time when people travelled by horse and carriage and wrote by the light of candles. We now live in a globally connected, post-industrial world of digital communication and advanced technology - and yet, our economic model remains stuck in the past.

Taking a thorough look at economics, including the history and how we reached our current way of thinking, Irene Schoene puts forward an alternative economics that is not only relevant to our modern world of technology and industry, but which also shows an awareness of environmental considerations.

Read this to be enlightened about how economics can be considerate of our environmental situation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857843111
• Artikelnr.: 68369375

Autorenporträt

Irene Schoene holds a doctorate in politics and economics and has spent a career working in environmental economics as well as writing two books and numerous papers on economics in German. She is one of the founders of the Berlin Institute for Ecological Economy Research, and is a member of its Scientific Council.

She is currently a non-executive director at Germany's green bank, the UmweltBank AG. Irene lectures and speaks across Europe and has written 50 publications, including Fair Economics.