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Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
Alfred HornborgAlf Hornborg
其他書名
Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex
出版Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-27
主題Business & Economics / Development / Economic DevelopmentBusiness & Economics / Environmental EconomicsNature / EcologyNature / Environmental Conservation & ProtectionPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / CapitalismSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / ArchaeologySocial Science / Activism & Social Justice
ISBN11084293789781108429375
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3DCdDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Are money and technology the core illusions of our time? In this book, Alf Hornborg offers a fresh assessment of the inequalities and environmental degradation of the world. He shows how both mainstream and radical economists are limited by a particular worldview and, as a result, do not grasp that conventional money is at the root of many of the problems that are threatening societies, not to mention planet Earth itself. Hornborg demonstrates how market prices obscure asymmetric exchanges of resources - human labor, land, energy, materials - under a veil of fictive reciprocity. Such unequal exchange, he claims, underpins the phenomenon of technological development, which is, fundamentally, a redistribution of time and space - human labor and land - in world society. Hornborg deftly illustrates how money and technology have shaped our thinking and our social and ecological relations, with disturbing consequences. He also offers solutions for their redesign in ways that will promote justice and sustainability.