Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Planet

Shi-Ling Hsu

ISBN 10: 1108465528 / ISBN 13: 9781108465526

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021

About this Item

Very slight curving on back cover. Otherwise it would be near fine. Law professor argues enlightened capitalism is our best hope to restore environmental wellbeing. Trump's return in January 2025 hardly augurs well! 253 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £6.60.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Planet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108465528
• ISBN 13: 9781108465526
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time, existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism, given up for dead only 30 years ago. In Capitalism and the Environment, Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse, if enacted, will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures – the result of bad decision-making – and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism, capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism, which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment.

About the Author

Shi-Ling Hsu is the D'Alemberte Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law and is the author of The Case for a Carbon Tax and co-author of Ocean and Coastal Resources Law.