Ethics of Consumption The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship

by Crocker, David A.; Linden, Toby; Camacho, Luis A.; Campbell, Colin; Crocker, David A.; Curlo, Eleonora; Daly, Herman E.; Diamond, Eliezer; Goodland, Robert; Hammond, Allen L.; Keyfitz, Nathan; Lane, Robert E.; Lichtenberg, Judith; Luban, David; Nash, Jame

• ISBN13: 9780847684946
• ISBN10: 0847684946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this comprehensive collection of essays, most of which appear for the first time, eminent scholars from many disciplines--philosophy, economics, sociology, political science, demography, theology, history, and social psychology--examine the causes, nature, and consequences of present-day consumption patterns in the United States and throughout the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii	(4)
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(18)
David A. Crocker
Toby Linden
Part I: Consumption, Natural Resources, and the Environment	19	(112)
1 Consumption: Value Added, Physical Transformation, and Welfare	19	(9)
Herman E. Daly
2 Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics	28	(25)
Mark Sagoff
3 Reply to Mark Sagoff's "Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics"	53	(10)
Herman E. Daly
4 Limits to Consumption and Economic Growth: The Middle Ground	63	(6)
Allen L. Hammond
5 Food, Feed, and Land	69	(26)
Paul E. Waggoner
6 The Case Against the Consumption of Grain-Fed Meat	95	(18)
Robert Goodland
7 The Political Economy of Consumption	113	(18)
David Luban
Part II: Explaining Consumption	131	(67)
8 A New Economic Critique of Consumer Society	131	(8)
Juliet B. Schor
9 Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming	139	(16)
Colin Campbell
10 Consuming Because Others Consume	155	(21)
Judith Lichtenberg
11 Consumer Expenditures and the Growth of Need-Required Income	176	(22)
Jerome M. Segal
Part III: Assessing Consumption	198	(89)
12 Alternatives to the Consumer Society	198	(20)
Paul L. Wachtel
13 The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness	218	(31)
Robert E. Lane
14 Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture	249	(20)
Michael Schudson
15 Consumption As Culture: A Desert Example	269	(18)
Alan Strudler
Eleonora Curlo
Part IV: Consumption and the Good Life: The Capabilities Approach	287	(104)
16 The Living Standard	287	(25)
Amartya Sen
17 The Good As Discipline, the Good As Freedom	312	(30)
Martha C. Nussbaum
18 Living at a High Economic Standard: A Functionings Analysis	342	(24)
Jerome M. Segal
19 Consumption, Well-Being, and Capability	366	(25)
David A. Crocker
Part V: Consumption and the Good Life: Religious and Theological Perspectives	391	(46)
20 "The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof": Jewish Perspectives on Consumption	391	(12)
Eliezer Diamond
21 The Ethics of Consumption: A Roman Catholic View	403	(13)
Charles K. Wilber
22 On the Subversive Virtue: Frugality	416	(21)
James A. Nash
Part VI: Consumption and International Justice	437	(124)
23 Natural Resource Consumption: North and South	437	(39)
Allen L. Hammond
24 Consumption and Population	476	(25)
Nathan Keyfitz
25 A Global Resources Dividend	501	(36)
Thomas W. Pogge
26 Consumption, Appropriation, and Stewardship	537	(15)
David Wasserman
27 Consumption As a Topic for the North-South Dialogue	552	(9)
Luis A. Camacho
Index of Names	561	(4)
Index of Subjects	565	(16)
About the Contributors	581