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: 9780847684953
• ISBN10: 0847684954
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-18
• 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
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Consumption: Value Added, Physical Transformation, and Welfare	p. 19
Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics	p. 28
Reply to Mark Sagoff's "Carrying Capacity and Ecological Economics"	p. 53
Limits to Consumption and Economic Growth: The Middle Ground	p. 63
Food, Feed, and Land	p. 69
The Case Against the Consumption of Grain-Fed Meat	p. 95
The Political Economy of Consumption	p. 113
A New Economic Critique of Consumer Society	p. 131
Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming	p. 139
Consuming Because Others Consume	p. 155
Consumer Expenditures and the Growth of Need-Required Income	p. 176
Alternatives to the Consumer Society	p. 198
The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness	p. 218
Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture	p. 249
Consumption As Culture: A Desert Example	p. 269
The Living Standard	p. 287
The Good As Discipline, the Good As Freedom	p. 312
Living at a High Economic Standard: A Functionings Analysis	p. 342
Consumption, Well-Being, and Capability	p. 366
"The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fullness Thereof": Jewish Perspectives on Consumption	p. 391
The Ethics of Consumption: A Roman Catholic View	p. 403
On the Subversive Virtue: Frugality	p. 416
Natural Resource Consumption: North and South	p. 437
Consumption and Population	p. 476
A Global Resources Dividend	p. 501
Consumption, Appropriation, and Stewardship	p. 537
Consumption As a Topic for the North-South Dialogue	p. 552
Index of Names	p. 561
Index of Subjects	p. 565
About the Contributors	p. 581
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