In the
First Edition of this remarkable book, Peter G.
Brown, through a series of careful arguments,
identified three challenges that lay ahead of us: the
first was to come up with an adequate account of our
minimal obligations to each other, and to the rest of
the natural order; the second was to redefine and
reshape the institutions of economics, government,
and civil society to reflect those obligations; and
the third was to re-conceptualize and redirect
relations between nations so as to foster those
institutions and discharge those obligations.
In
this his Second Edition, he revisits and expands on
those original ideas and draws some new, and
innovative, conclusions that will redirect what we do
and give substance and direction to the institutions
that must be adopted if life is to flourish. Finding
our historical attitude of 'full-human-use' toward
the environment unsatisfactory, Brown offers an
alternative, namely, an 'all-species-use.' What he
calls "the commonwealth of life," and the
acceptance of this reasoning has some very important
implications for all life that share this planet.
A
pioneering work in ethics and economics for the
new global era raising all the hard
questions…and proposing a radically new way
of thinking about how the global community should
function.
--Peter Singer, IRA W. De Camp Professor of
Bioethics, Princeton University
Peter
Brown has given us a structure that unites an
economics of stewardship with a politics of
trusteeship. Highly recommended! --Herman E.
Daly, University of Maryland
An
important contribution to environmental ethics,
politics, and economics. Should be read by
scholars, policy makers, and activists alike.
--Michael W. Howard, University of Maine
Peter
Brown's economics is moral, practical and urgent.
It's an indispensable blueprint for surviving the
21st century. --Peter Barnes, Capitalism
3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Remarkable.
A book on economics in which all life, not just
human life, matters. --Peter Victor,
Environmental Studies, York University
One
of those rare books whose every chapter is a
source of both exhilaration and despair.
--William E. Rees, PhD, University of British
Columbia
Table of Contents
Foreword
Interview with the
author
PETER
G. BROWN is a Professor in the School of Environment
and the Departments of Geography, and Natural
Resource Sciences at McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec. He is the author of Restoring
the Public Trust: A Fresh Vision for Progressive
Government in America.
240
pages
Paperback $19.99
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Ecology
& the Environment / International Politics /
Economics
Now
Available: September 2007
