Routledge The Economics of Sustainability (The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy)

Product Description Before the late 1980s, when the ideas of sustainability and sustainable development to the forefront of public debate, conventional, neo-classical economic thinking about development and growth had rarely given any consideration to the needs of future generations, or the sustainability of natural resource use. Defining sustainability broadly as intergenerational fairness in the long-term decision making of a whole society, and using established economic concepts, this selection of refereed journal articles brings a famously ill-defined concept into sharp focus, providing academics at all levels with a formidable research tool. Spanning thirty years of the most important philosophical, theoretical and empirical contributions from both critics and defenders of neo-classical assumptions and methods of economic analysis, this focused collection of papers constitutes a unique, balanced resource on the full range of intellectual debates surrounding the economics of sustainability. About the Author Contributors: Partha S. Dasgupta, Geoffrey M. Heal, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Robert M. Solow, John M. Hartwick, Edward B. Barbier, Herman E. Daly, John Pezzey, Michael A. Toman, Wilfred Beckerman, Richard B. Howarth, Richard B. Norgaard, Michael Common, Charles Perrings, David W. Pearce, Giles D. Atkinson, Geir B. Asheim, Talbot Page, John C.V. Pezzey, Graciela Chichilnisky, Jeffrey Krautkraemer, Raymond Batina, Martin L. Weitzman, John L.R. Proops, Nick Hanley.