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Alejandro Nadal - Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability - 9781848135062 - V9781848135062
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Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability

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Description for Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability Paperback. In Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability, Nadal argues that macroeconomic theory and policymaking has to date barely addressed vital environmental issues. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KCB; KCN; RNU. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
Macroeconomic policies have devastating effects on the environment. They shape the economic processes that drive deforestation, soil erosion, the exhaustion of living marine resources, greenhouse gas emissions, and the massive loss of biodiversity. Despite this, the vital connection between macroeconomic policies and the environment has thus far received little attention by the academic and the policy-making communities. Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability reveals the linkages between monetary, financial and fiscal policies, and the environmental degradation that threatens the planet's biosphere. In doing so, it examines the complex lines of transmission from policy priorities all the way down to the effects ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848135062
SKU
V9781848135062
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99-5

About Alejandro Nadal
Alejandro Nadal is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies of El Colegio de Mexico. He is co-chair of the Theme on the Environment, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment (TEMTI) of the International Union for the Conservation of nature, IUCN.

Reviews for Rethinking Macroeconomics for Sustainability
Thoughtfully argued and eloquently written, this book is an indispensible treatment of the critical issues of economic growth and the environment.
Frank Ackerman, Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, Tufts University
Exceptionally good. Alejandro Nadal delivers a sharp critique of mainstream macroeconomics and conventional environmentalism, before moving on to integrate climate science, development policy and post Keynesian thought in a ... Read more

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