Is Capitalism Sustainable?: Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology

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Summary: Could have been better
Review: A good concept, but the text is clear as mud. Why is it so difficult a thing for writers to write lucidly and clearly? This book is filled with so much jargon and overdone text that if you don't have the stamia you will fall asleep after 5 pages. I understood Hobbes better my first time around more than this. Remember Hobbes???

Rating:
Summary: Could have been better
Review: A good concept, but the text is clear as mud. Why is it so difficult a thing for writers to write lucidly and clearly? This book is filled with so much jargon and overdone text that if you don't have the stamia you will fall asleep after 5 pages. I understood Hobbes better my first time around more than this. Remember Hobbes???

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Summary: a well written critique of the global economy
Review: This book will lift the scales off many a pair of eyes. It challenges the hyped up triumph of political and economic liberalism by exposing serious philosophical weakness' of those systems to deal with widespread poverty and ecological devastation. At the same time it shows how local, participatory forms of governance can solve many of capitalisms defects by using new tools of economic analysis. The authors do not flinch in their assessment of the immediate future, but look foward to when the needs of humanity and the imperatives of technological economies complement rather than subvert the ecological conditions that make both possible.

Rating:
Summary: a well written critique of the global economy
Review: This book will lift the scales off many a pair of eyes. It challenges the hyped up triumph of political and economic liberalism by exposing serious philosophical weakness' of those systems to deal with widespread poverty and ecological devastation. At the same time it shows how local, participatory forms of governance can solve many of capitalisms defects by using new tools of economic analysis. The authors do not flinch in their assessment of the immediate future, but look foward to when the needs of humanity and the imperatives of technological economies complement rather than subvert the ecological conditions that make both possible.