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- Book Title
- Green Capitalism?
- Publication Name
- Green Capitalism? : Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
- Title
- Green Capitalism?
- Subtitle
- Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
- Contributor
- Adam Rome (Edited by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0812249011
- EAN
- 9780812249019
- ISBN
- 9780812249019
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Business & Finance
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 02/05/2017
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to protect parts of nature, limit their production of wastes, and support broader environmental reforms. In the last thirty years, especially, many businesses have worked hard to reduce their direct and indirect environmental footprint. But are these efforts exceptional, or can capitalism truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? offers a critical, historically informed perspective on building a more sustainable economy. Written by scholars of business history and environmental history, the essays in this volume consider the nature of capitalism through historical overviews of twentieth-century businesses and a wide range of focused case studies. Beginning early in the century, contributors explore the response of business leaders to environmental challenges in an era long before the formation of the modern regulatory state. Moving on to midcentury environmental initiatives, scholars analyze failed business efforts to green products and packaging--such as the infamous six-pack ring--in the 1960s and 1970s. The last section contains case studies of businesses that successfully managed greening initiatives, from the first effort by an electric utility to promote conservation, to the environmental overhaul of a Swedish mining company, to the problem of household waste in pre-1990 West Germany. Ranging in geographic scope from Europe to the United States, Green Capitalism? raises questions about capitalism in different historical, sociocultural, and political contexts. Contributors: Hartmut Berghoff, Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Brian C. Black, William D. Bryan, Julie Cohn, Leif Fredrickson, Hugh S. Gorman, Geoffrey Jones, David Kinkela, Roman Köster, Joseph A. Pratt, Adam Rome, Christine Meisner Rosen.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812249011
ISBN-13
9780812249019
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229667483
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Green Capitalism? : Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Series
Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hc79.E5.G6885 2017
Reviews
Green Capitalism? is a very forward-looking volume in its focus on how the two 'isms'-capitalism and environmentalism-might find common cause. Taken together, these excellent essays tell a story regarding the challenges of 'green capitalism' that readers of both history and environmental policy will find useful., " Green Capitalism? is an in-depth, and carefully analyzed, contribution to the relatively unexplored intersection of business history and environmental history."--Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University, [T]he ambiguity highlighted in Green Capitalism is the type that enables readers to develop more sophisticated interpretations of--or at least approaches to--green capitalism interpretations and approaches that defy caricature and can't be adequately conveyed on a bumper sticker . . . One puts down this fine book convinced of the importance of the longstanding relationship between business and the environment, more aware of the complexities and contradictions involved in said relationship, and yes, more understanding of the increasing power of the concept of green capitalism today."-- Technology and Culture, Green Capitalism? is an in-depth, and carefully analyzed, contribution to the relatively unexplored intersection of business history and environmental history., Fresh and thought-provoking . . . [W]hat makes this volume stand out is its emphasis on creative deployment of business history techniques to get at new understandings of manmade ecological change. By paying close attention to firm structure and strategy-the stuff of old-school business history-these authors show how historical research into corporations might offer innovative solutions to the pressing global environmental problems we face today., " Green Capitalism? is a very forward-looking volume in its focus on how the two 'isms'--capitalism and environmentalism--might find common cause. Taken together, these excellent essays tell a story regarding the challenges of 'green capitalism' that readers of both history and environmental policy will find useful."--Sean Adams, University of Florida, [T]he ambiguity highlighted in Green Capitalism is the type that enables readers to develop more sophisticated interpretations of-or at least approaches to-green capitalism interpretations and approaches that defy caricature and can't be adequately conveyed on a bumper sticker . . . One puts down this fine book convinced of the importance of the longstanding relationship between business and the environment, more aware of the complexities and contradictions involved in said relationship, and yes, more understanding of the increasing power of the concept of green capitalism today."
Table of Content
Preface --Roger Horowitz PART I. THE BIG PICTURE Chapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy --Adam Rome 1 Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business-History Perspective on Eco-Capitalism --Hartmut Berghoff Chapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance --Hugh S. Gorman PART II. CONSERVATION BEFORE ENVIRONMENTALISM Chapter 4. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America --Christine Meisner Rosen Chapter 5. "Constructive and Not Destructive Development": Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South --William D. Bryan Chapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? The Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America --Julie Cohn PART III. FAILURES AND DILEMMAS Chapter 7. Plastic Six-Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem --David Kinkela Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction --Leif Fredrickson PART IV. GOING GREEN Chapter 9. Dilemmas of Going Green: Environmental Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden, 1960-2000 --Ann-Kristin Bergquist Chapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965-1990 --Roman Köster Chapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s --Joseph A. Pratt Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy --Geoffrey Jones Chapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles --Brian C. Black Notes Contributors Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2017
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / 20th Century, Environmental Economics, General
Lccn
2016-052374
Dewey Decimal
338
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Business & Economics, History
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