Economic Futures: Climate Change and Modernity

The life of our planet is at stake, and we must rethink our relationship with ecology and create a new economy that supports care and sustainability. This book explores alternative economic theories to advocate for different ways of economic distribution that do not keep producing emissions and calls into question our philosophy of time, relationship with ecology, and the original creation of debt, interest, and ways of avoiding exponential economic growth. It proposes a new materialist philosophy that emphasises the integration of humanity and the ecosystem and sets out to create a philosophy of economics built on interconnection and care.

Format: Hardback
Length: 348 pages
Publication date: 02 October 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International

The life of our planet has reached a critical stage, and its survival depends on our ability to rethink our relationship with ecology and create a new economy that does not rely on economic growth and supports care and sustainability for our planet. This book examines histories of alternative economic theories to advocate for different ways of economic distribution that do not keep producing emissions. It calls into question our philosophy of time, our relationship with ecology, and the original creation of debt, interest, and ways of avoiding exponential economic growth. The author uses ideas from Maori philosophy, Mesopotamian finance, and quantum mechanics to set out a new basis for economic theory that is no longer set up on greedy individualism, a hierarchical trickle-down effect, or even overall economic growth. Instead, this new materialist philosophy emphasises the integration of humanity and the ecosystem and sets out to create a philosophy of economics built on interconnection and care.

Weight: 642g
Dimension: 160 x 237 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786615114