Capitalism As If the World Matters

ISBN-13: 9781844071920 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str.

Jonathon Porritt

Opis

Tackling the most pressing problem of our time - how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity and ecological integrity, this book is destined to be one of the most important business, economics and politics books of the year. Sir Jonathon Porritt, CBE, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is a leading influence on business and industry, the UK government's premier adviser on sustainable development and a top author, broadcaster and visionary. As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is beginning to question the very structure of the economy that has provided so much wealth, and inequity, across the world. In this fresh, politically charged analysis, Jonathon Porritt wades in on the most pressing question of the 21st century - can capitalism, as the only real economic game in town, be retooled to deliver a sustainable future?

Spis treści

Part I: Our Unsustainable World ? Introduction ? Conflicting Imperatives ? Sustainable Development for Real ? Re-engaging with Economic Growth ? Unsustainable Capitalism? ? Through the Global Looking Glass ? Part II: A Framework for Sustainable Capitalism ? The Five Capitals Framework ? Natural Capital ? Human Capital ? Social Capital ? Manufactured Capital ? Financial Capital ? Part III: Better Lives in a Better World ? Confronting Denial ? Changing the Metrics ? Business Excellence ? Civil Society ? Visions and Values ? Converging Imperatives ? Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Jonathon Porritt CBE is Co-Founder and Programme Director of Forum for the Future. A leading adviser to business and industry, he was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the new UK Sustainable Development Commission. He is Co-Director of The Prince of Wales?s Business and Environment Programme.