The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment

by Michael Perelman

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The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the least advantaged labourers. From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has short-changed the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403962715

ISBN13:9781403962713

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:217 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"

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