An edition of The social costs of neoliberalism (2017)

The social costs of neoliberalism

essays on the economics of K. William Kapp

The social costs of neoliberalism
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An edition of The social costs of neoliberalism (2017)

The social costs of neoliberalism

essays on the economics of K. William Kapp

K. William Kapp was an environmental pioneer. Decades ago, he challenged economic theories that disregarded the waste and environmental damage caused by production, recognising that environmental pollution threatens sustainable development. The Social Costs of Neoliberalism addresses rising levels of social demage in an era of climate change. It does so by reconstructing Kapp's theory of social costs that explains why corporations have a built-in tendency to increase profits by socializing costs, that is, by shifting costs on to society. His focus is on the tremendous scope and irreversibility of this damage, pointing to its systematic character. Kapp convincingly counters neoliberal and neoclassical arguments on externalities and market failure, that do not fully account for fatal flaws in the market's calculus. His proposed alterntive is a robust framework of social-democratic controls of the economy to prevent effectively such social costs and the damage they cause to our environment. --

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Publisher
Spokesman
Language
English
Pages
254

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Nottingham

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.12/2
Library of Congress
HB95 .B47 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
254 pages
Number of pages
254

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL61837123M
ISBN 10
0851248640
ISBN 13
9780851248646
OCLC/WorldCat
985214685

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Work ID
OL45374968W

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