For The Common Good

Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

By: Herman E. Daly

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Paperback | 1 April 1994 | Edition Number 2

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Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book

Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future.

Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Economics as an Academic Discipline
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines	p. 25
Misplaced Concreteness: The Market	p. 44
Misplaced Concreteness: Measuring Economic Success	p. 62
Misplaced Concreteness: Homo economicus	p. 85
Misplaced Concreteness: Land	p. 97
New Beginnings
From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community	p. 121
From Chrematistics to Oikonomia	p. 138
From Individualism to Person-in-Community	p. 159
From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities	p. 176
From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere	p. 190
Policies for Community in the United States
Free Trade versus Community	p. 209
Population	p. 236
Land Use	p. 252
Agriculture	p. 268
Industry	p. 283
Labor	p. 298
Income Policies and Taxes	p. 315
From World Domination to National Security	p. 332
Getting There
Possible Steps	p. 361
The Religious Vision	p. 382
Afterword: Money, Debt, and Wealth	p. 407
Appendix: The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare	p. 443
References	p. 508
Index	p. 521
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