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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Edition
- First Edition
- Inscribed
- No
- Signed
- No
- Features
- paperback, Stanford Briefs
- Ex Libris
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalize
- No
- Book Title
- Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Ca
- Personalized
- Yes
- Topic
- Environmental Economic, Economic Policy, Development, Sustainable
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Genre
- Environmental Economic, Economic Policy, Development, Sustainable
- ISBN
- 9781503611559
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
1503611558
ISBN-13
9781503611559
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038610458
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Limits : Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
Subject
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Economic History, Political, Development / Sustainable Development
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Philosophy, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-285951
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Kallis's take on [Malthus's] work was an eye-opener for me....Whether you are interested in Malthus, growth and its limits, or issues of sustainability, I recommend Limits as a pleasantly concise and thought-provoking book that is sure to stimulate discussion."-- The Inquisitive Biologist, "In an era addicted to endless growth, Giorgos Kallis artfully explores the power of limits and the surprising freedom that they can unleash. A compelling--and fittingly concise--read for our times."--Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, "Malthus is a key figure for understanding how to survive the twenty-first century, yet Kallis shows we have spent the last two hundred years misunderstanding him. Quirky, provocative, and engaging, Limits is a must-read book for environmentalists and anti-environmentalists alike."--Bill Adams, University of Cambridge, "[How] did the idea of limits get such a bad rap? Well, the great virtue of Giorgos Kallis's fine book, Limits , is in pointing this out by showing how the idea of limits got conflated with the spectral notion of 'scarcity' and in revealing a host of problems which followed from that unholy union....Kallis undertakes something of a phenomenology and anthropology of limits, which is an enjoyable and eminently humane ride."--Michael J. Sauter, Front Porch Republic, In this timely and essential book, Giorgos Kallis makes a compelling argument for autonomy and freedom from the unfulfillable promise of limitless growth under consumer capitalism. He shows how democratic, egalitarian self-limitation can combat the dominant but unsustainable imperative to constantly produce and acquire more., "Every so often a book comes along that can cut through fruitless debates and reveal a new way of thinking about a complex problem. Limits is such a book. Giorgos Kallis shows that by rejecting scarcity thinking, we can find the right questions and answers for our ecological and social crises."--Juliet Schor, Boston College, "[The] popular understanding of Malthus comes from a mis- or half-reading, Kallis finds....[A] reconsideration of Malthus, like recent ones of Adam Smith, is a welcome part of the assault, across many fronts, on the neoliberal order."--Anthony Chaney, U.S. Intellectual History Blog, "In this timely and essential book, Giorgos Kallis makes a compelling argument for autonomy and freedom from the unfulfillable promise of limitless growth under consumer capitalism. He shows how democratic, egalitarian self-limitation can combat the dominant but unsustainable imperative to constantly produce and acquire more."--Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "[A] welcome expansion of the English-language degrowth literature away from its usual technocratic or homespun focus on economic and environmental concerns, and into the humanities....[This] book is a very fine example of the sort of depth the environmental humanities can bring to an issue."--Andrew J. Sutter, Brave New Europe
Dewey Decimal
338.9/27
Synopsis
Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits-a notion central to environmentalism-clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need., Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits--a notion central to environmentalism--clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, Limits shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need.
LC Classification Number
HC79.E5K33574 2019
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