The Limits to Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits to Scarcity write by Lyla Mehta. This book was released on 2013-05-13. The Limits to Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives - be it of housing, food, water or oil. But has the conception of scarcity been politicized, naturalized, and universalized in academic and policy debates? Has overhasty recourse to scarcity evoked a standard set of market, institutional and technological solutions which have blocked out political contestations, overlooking access as a legitimate focus for academic debates as well as policies and interventions? Theoretical and empirical chapters by leading academics and scholar-activists grapple with these issues by questioning scarcity's taken-for-granted nature. They examine scarcity debates across three of the most important resources - food, water and energy - and their implications for theory, institutional arrangements, policy responses and innovation systems. The book looks at how scarcity has emerged as a totalizing discourse in both the North and South. The 'scare' of scarcity has led to scarcity emerging as a political strategy for powerful groups. Aggregate numbers and physical quantities are trusted, while local knowledges and experiences of scarcity that identify problems more accurately and specifically are ignored. Science and technology are expected to provide 'solutions', but such expectations embody a multitude of unexamined assumptions about the nature of the 'problem', about the technologies and about the institutional arrangements put forward as a 'fix.' Through this examination the authors demonstrate that scarcity is not a natural condition: the problem lies in how we see scarcity and the ways in which it is socially generated.
The Limits to Scarcity
The Limits to Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits to Scarcity write by Lyla Mehta. This book was released on 2011. The Limits to Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Facing Up to Scarcity
Facing Up to Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Up to Scarcity write by Barbara H. Fried. This book was released on 2020-02-27. Facing Up to Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Facing Up to Scarcity offers a powerful critique of the nonconsequentialist approaches that have been dominant in Anglophone moral and political thought over the last fifty years. In these essays Barbara H. Fried examines the leading schools of contemporary nonconsequentialist thought, including Rawlsianism, Kantianism, libertarianism, and social contractarianism. In the realm of moral philosophy, she argues that nonconsequentialist theories grounded in the sanctity of "individual reasons" cannot solve the most important problems taken to be within their domain. Those problems, which arise from irreducible conflicts among legitimate (and often identical) individual interests, can be resolved only through large-scale interpersonal trade-offs of the sort that nonconsequentialism foundationally rejects. In addition to scrutinizing the internal logic of nonconsequentialist thought, Fried considers the disastrous social consequences when nonconsequentialist intuitions are allowed to drive public policy. In the realm of political philosophy, she looks at the treatment of distributive justice in leading nonconsequentialist theories. Here one can design distributive schemes roughly along the lines of the outcomes favoured—but those outcomes are not logically entailed by the normative premises from which they are ostensibly derived, and some are extraordinarily strained interpretations of those premises. Fried concludes, as a result, that contemporary nonconsequentialist political philosophy has to date relied on weak justifications for some very strong conclusions.
Scarcity
Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scarcity write by Sendhil Mullainathan. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
The Limits to Growth
The Limits to Growth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Limits to Growth write by Donella H. Meadows. This book was released on 1972. The Limits to Growth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs
