The Business of Consumption Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy

by Westra, Laura; Werhane, Patricia H.; Brenkert, George G.; Brown, Donald A.; Buchholz, Rogene A.; Daly, Herman E.; Dodd, Richard; Freeman, R Edward; Freyfogle, Eric T.; Goodland, R; Gorman, Michael E.; Larson, Andrea; Lemons, John; Mayer, Don; McDonough, W

• ISBN13: 9780847686698
• ISBN10: 0847686698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

At the forefront of international concerns about global legislation and regulation, a host of noted environmentalists and business ethicists examine ethical issues in consumption from the points of view of environmental sustainability, economic development, and free enterprise. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Laura Westra
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Environmental and Economic Sustainability	1	(16)
Patricia H. Werhane
PART ONE: THE PROBLEM WITH CONSUMPTION
Consumption: The Economics of Value Added and the Ethics of Value Distributed	17	(14)
Herman E. Daly
The Need to Face Conflicts between Rich and Poor Nations to Solve Global Environmental Problems	31	(16)
Donald A. Brown
``The Tragedy of the Commons'' Revisited: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Consumption	47	(20)
Joel E. Reichart
Institutionalizing Overconsumption	67	(24)
Don Mayer
Marketing, the Ethics of Consumption, and Less-Developed Countries	91	(22)
George G. Brenkert
Reducing the Ecological Footprint of Consumption	113	(18)
William E. Rees
Who Should Bear the Burdens of Risk and Proof in Changing Consumption Patterns?	131	(22)
John Lemons
PART TWO: SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS OF CONSUMPTION
A Nonanthropocentric Environmental Evaluation of Technology for Public Policy: Why Norton's Approach Is Insufficient for Environmental Policy	153	(28)
Laura Westra
Consumption and the Practice of Land Health	181	(22)
Eric T. Freyfogle
Environmental Sustainability: Eat Better and Kill Less	203	(18)
R. Goodland
Toward an Ethics of Consumption: Rethinking the Nature of Growth	221	(16)
Rogene A. Buchholz
Sandra B. Rosenthal
PART THREE: CONSUMPTION AND CORNUCOPIA
Scarcity or Abundance?	237	(10)
Julian L. Simon
Holes in the Cornucopia	247	(24)
Ernest Partridge
Do We Consume Too Much?	271	(26)
Mark Sagoff
PART FOUR: CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
A Boat for Thoreau: A Discourse on Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things	297	(22)
William McDonough
Consuming Oneself: The Dynamics of Consumption	319	(14)
Andrea Larson
Toward a Sustainable Tomorrow	333	(6)
Michael E. Gorman
Matthew M. Mehalik
Scott Sonenshein
Wendy Warren
Shades of Green: Business, Ethics, and the Environment	339	(16)
R. Edward Freeman
Jessica Pierce
Richard Dodd
Index	355	(18)
About the Contributors	373