Economics of the Anthropocene Age

Explores the very recent phenomenon of the Anthropocene age
Offers a scientific explanation for an age of both environmental and social degradation
Examines the links between economic growth, income inequality, democracy, and degradation of the environment
Presents public policies based on scientific theory

Explores the very recent phenomenon of the Anthropocene age Offers a scientific explanation for an age of both environmental and social degradation Examines the links between economic growth, income inequality, democracy, and degradation of the environment Presents public policies based on scientific theory

Autorentext
Adolfo Figueroa is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is the author of two previous books with Palgrave Macmillan, Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment (2015) and Rules for Scientific Research in Economics (2016).

Zusammenfassung
Explores the very recent phenomenon of the Anthropocene age
Offers a scientific explanation for an age of both environmental and social degradation
Examines the links between economic growth, income inequality, democracy, and degradation of the environment
Presents public policies based on scientific theory

Inhalt

1. Economic Growth with Social Maladies.- 2. Power Structure and Democracy.- 3. Evolutionary Human Behavior.- 4. Consumerism in the Economic Growth Process.- 5. Individual Freedom and the Common Good.- 6. Anthropocene Age Economics.- 7. New Economic Principles for the Anthropocene Age.- 8. Epilogue.