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Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet: The Failure of Mainstream Economists book cover

1st Edition

Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet The Failure of Mainstream Economists

By Jacques Richard Copyright 2023
142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting. The work has four main themes: First, the book provides... Read more

General introduction

PART I Why are the tools of dominant economists inadequate for ecology
Introduction

1 Historical presentation of the tools of the dominant economists                                                                                                  

2 Theoretical critiques of the tools of dominant economists by other economists                                                   

Conclusion of the first part

PART II Why accountant’s tools are needed to solve ecological problems
Introduction

3 The birth of modern accounting and its ignorance by most economists                                                                           

4 The interest of the knowledge of capitalist accounting for an anticapitalist economic revolution

Conclusion of the second part                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                               
PART III How to use accounting concepts to rebuild an ecological and humanitarian economy
Introduction

5 The basic principles of new economics and management: the CARE/TDL model                     

6 Appliance of the CARE/TDL model to microeconomics: the case of green house gases
 
7 Application of the CARE / TDL method to national accounts

Conclusion of the third part
                                 
PART IV Is there any hope to see the use of The CARE / TDL Model today?
Introduction

8 The problems of the diversity of environmental (ecological) accounting systems and green finance

9 The current proposals of the experts of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

Conclusion of the fourth part

General conclusion

Biography

Jacques Richard is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris Dauphine, France. He is also a former chartered accountant and counsellor of trade unions, and former member of the Authority of Accounting Standards (Paris). In 2013 he received the "Best Manuscript Award" from the Academy of Accounting Historians.

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