The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster, and Human Survival

Table of contents

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• The Environmental Endgame i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• The Environmental End Game xvii
• 1 - The Making of the God Game Winners Take All 1
• 2 - God Games at the Pentagon the New Terms of Human Survival 22
• 3 - A New View of Nature Parts and Wholes in Biological Reality 46
• 4 - The Amazing Gift of Language the Emergence of Fully Conscious Humans 61
• 5 - The Gods of the Soul Less Machine Newtonian Physics, Metaphysics, and Natural Laws 81
• 6 - The God with the Invisible Hand Neoclassical Economics and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Physics 102
• 7 - A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics 124
• 8 - An Unnatural Religion the Telos of the Market Consensus 146
• 9 - The End Game Resolving the Crisis in the Global Environment 165
• Notes 189
• Index 201

• The Environmental Endgame i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• The Environmental End Game xvii
• 1 - The Making of the God Game Winners Take All 1
• 2 - God Games at the Pentagon the New Terms of Human Survival 22
• 3 - A New View of Nature Parts and Wholes in Biological Reality 46
• 4 - The Amazing Gift of Language the Emergence of Fully Conscious Humans 61
• 5 - The Gods of the Soul Less Machine Newtonian Physics, Metaphysics, and Natural Laws 81
• 6 - The God with the Invisible Hand Neoclassical Economics and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Physics 102
• 7 - A Green Thumb on the Invisible Hand Environmental Economics and Ecological Economics 124
• 8 - An Unnatural Religion the Telos of the Market Consensus 146
• 9 - The End Game Resolving the Crisis in the Global Environment 165
• Notes 189
• Index 201
• About the Author 213