Reengineering Capitalism: From Industrial Revolution towards Sustainable Development

This book provides an innovative approach to sustainable development, one based on insights gleaned from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and which highlights the importance of aligning economic interests with sustainable development considerations. It investigates how a broad-based systematic approach can be used to develop societies sustainably by integrating environmental issues into the capitalist system without value-laden approaches, which produce little more than politics and inaction as we are witnessing today. The proposed approach focuses on realigning the financial markets to providing capital at reasonable cost to fuel innovation towards sustainable development across the entire economy. This requires government policies that level the playing field and also intervene strategically in cases where the playing field is weak or missing . Intended for researchers, policy-makers and graduate students, the book will also benefit non-governmental organizations, economists and the general public.

Jan Emblemsvåg is Senior Vice President of Rolls-Royce Marine with full responsibility for all commercial ship design and systems integration.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at Ålesund University College, gives lectures and serves as a management consultant if time permits. He holds his Ph.D. in engineering design, but his research and work is inter-disciplinary ranging from cost management, strategy/risk management, general management to business development. He has published three books before – the most notable is one on Activity-Based Life-Cycle Costing published by John Wiley & Sons in 2003.  He has also published more than dozen journal papers on a variety of subjects since 1994.