The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment

Robert L. Nadeau

August, 2003
Cloth, 336 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12798-1
$38.00 / £26.00

Introduction

1. Spaceship Earth: Homo economicus and the Environmental Crisis

2. The Not So Worldly Philosophers: Metaphysics, Newtonian Physics, and Classical Economics

3. The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Neoclassical Economists and Mid-Nineteenth Century Physics

4. No Free Lunch: Mainstream Economics and Globalization

5. A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand: Environmental Economics

6. Schisms, Heresies, and Keeping the Faith: Ecological Economics

7. The Real Economy in Biology: Emergence and a New View of Order

8. The Real Economy in Physics: Cosmic Connections

9. Toward a New Theory of Economics: The Costs of Doing Business in the Global Environment

10. The Ceremony of Innocence: Science, Ethics, and the Environmental Crisis

Related Subjects

• Economics & Finance

About the Author

Robert Nadeau is an interdisciplinary scholar and an historian of science and is currently a professor at George Mason University. His books include The Non-Local Universe: The New Physics and Matters of the Mind; The Conscious Universe: Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality; and S/He Brain: Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism. He lives in Fairfax, VA.

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