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Book Synopsis Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting by : Jacques Richard
Download or read book Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting written by Jacques Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more humane economy will require a new accounting model. Humanitarian Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive accounting in respect of ecology. This new model will take the traditional weapons of capitalist accounting and turn them against capitalism, with a goal to protect and conserve human and natural capital within the framework of a democratic society. The CARE model has been conceived as the potential basis of a new type of market economy and of a new type of governance of firms and nations. Additionally, this allows for a new conception of capital, cost and profit that helps with moves towards a society of the commons. The first part of the book explores the reconstruction of accounting and economics from the ground up, outlining the theoretical basis for the model. The second part of the book explores the transformation of the governance of firms and nations. Finally, an additional section is dedicated to the conception of a new model of national accounting. This book will be of significant interest to readers of ecological economics, critical accounting and heterodox economics.
Book Synopsis Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet by : Jacques Richard
Download or read book Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet written by Jacques Richard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a presentation and criticism of the tools traditionally proposed by neoclassical economists. Adopting a historical perspective, this section shows how these tools have evolved over time and explores some of the theoretical criticisms which have been leveled at them. Second, the book shows how mainstream economists have moved away from more pragmatic and efficient solutions because of their ignorance of the realities of management, in particular, corporate accounting, and their ideologically driven desire to avoid attacking the capitalist model. Third, a toolkit of anti-capitalist ecological accounting is outlined, showcasing the distinct advantages of this approach for the environmental crises. And finally the book considers the concrete possibilities of a rapid application of these new tools to combat the immediate threats we are facing. The book will interest all readers who want to understand how anti-capitalist ecological accounting can contribute to cooling and saving the planet, in particular readers in ecological economics and accounting.
Book Synopsis Green Accounting by : Peter Bartelmus
Download or read book Green Accounting written by Peter Bartelmus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Our cherished economic indicators of income, product, consumption and capital fail in taking a long-term view of social progress. They do not account for environmental deterioration, which impairs the quality of life of present and future generations, and hence the sustainability of development. "Greening" the conventional national (and corporate) accounts introduces environmental impacts and costs into these accounts and balances. The result is a new compass for steering the economy towards sustainability, which may change not only our main measures of economic performance but also the basic tenets of environmental and resource policies. This book presents methodological advances and case studies of environmental accounting, and discusses their use in environmental management and policies. In their introduction, the editors provide a critical perspective of historical developments and current debates.
Book Synopsis Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting by : Seleshi Sisaye
Download or read book Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting written by Seleshi Sisaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and organizational performance cannot be explained unless we can deduce patterns of administrative behaviour that chronicle management practices. Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting argues that, despite the broader social and economic development dimensions of sustainability and the limitations of its extension to corporate and organizational behaviour; an ecological framework is capable of providing the overall societal and community chronologies that describe corporate sustainable operations. Drawing examples from international development and federal government organizations, this book documents the link between ecology, corporate sustainable development, and sustainability accounting and reporting. It draws together the literature from several disciplines to elaborate the contribution of the ecological approach to sustainable development in the accounting literature. This book will be of particular interest to students, academics and practitioners in the areas of environmental studies, ecological economics, sustainable development studies, and social and environmental accounting. The sociological and anthropological perspectives make this book the first of its kind to apply the population ecology of sociology to both the sustainability and accounting literature.
Book Synopsis Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts by : Valeria Costantini
Download or read book Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts written by Valeria Costantini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Accounting Matrices of Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) tables are used to analyze a range of environmental pressures and economic data resulting from consumption and production patterns – helping us gain a far better notion of the consequences of individuals’, households’ and firms’ actions for the world we live in. This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of hybrid environmental and economic accounts. The perspective of environmental accounting for the analysis of the relationships between the economic and environmental systems, especially regarding the satellite accounts like NAMEA, is relatively recent, and partly derives from the conceptual and applied deficits that have emerged during the setting up of green GDP or GNP measures as alternative measures of accounting. NAMEA provides a comprehensive and integrated picture of the economic system in association with the environmental system (physical pressures such as emissions) by a sector classification. This book is an integrated collection of complementary papers that revolve around the issue of environment-economic accounting In the first part a historical background and empirical issues related to the NAMEA-type table definitions and estimations open the book, followed by some applications and analyses mainly applied to a sub-national level. The second part opens the window to international case studies for different EU countries and studies with methodological insights. These policy-oriented, original works are primarily from an applied perspective, although theoretical aspects are also fully developed. The book should be of use to Environmental and Ecological economics students and researchers, as well as those studying the more general field of Environment studies.
Book Synopsis Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought by : Jacques Richard
Download or read book Capital in the History of Accounting and Economic Thought written by Jacques Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon (1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of accounting and economic thought. The work provides a rare juxtaposition of the reasoning, discourse and writings of accountants and economists. With regard to ‘capital’, this approach highlights the ongoing struggle between these "uncongenial twins" – as Kenneth Boulding put it – for primacy in analysing, and utilising, capitalism. But if they are certainly "uncongenial", the book also argues that it is wrong to ever classify these two disciplines as "twins" because they have taken very different paths ever since scientism came to dominate in economics and ethical and moral considerations were put to one side. This book will be of significant interest to readers to history of economic thought, critical accounting and heterodox economics.
Book Synopsis Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism by : Jacques Richard
Download or read book Economics, Accounting and the True Nature of Capitalism written by Jacques Richard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both economics and management. It is argued that while for the practitioners of capitalism – in accounting and business – the capital in their accounts is a debt to be repaid (or a thing to be kept), for economists, it has been considered a means (or even a resource or an asset) intended to be worn out. This category error has led to economists failing to comprehend the true nature of capitalism. On this basis, this book proposes a new definition of capitalism that brings about considerable changes in the attitude to be had towards this economic system, in particular, the means to bring about its replacement. This book will be of significant interest to readers of political economy, history of economic thought, critical accounting and heterodox economics.
Book Synopsis Ecological Money and Finance by : Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
Download or read book Ecological Money and Finance written by Thomas Lagoarde-Segot and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed overview of ecological money and finance. The functioning and development of the monetary and financial systems are analysed in relation to sustainability constraints to highlight the actions required to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Empirical case studies are utilized to give insight into the failure of the traditional financial system, with ways in which they can be overcome also considered. This book adopts a pluralist perspective to revisit the foundations of financial and monetary economics from a sustainability perspective, and examines the economic and financial instruments that can be used to combat ecological challenges. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in ecological economics and sustainable finance.
Book Synopsis Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism by : Jacques Richard
Download or read book Philosophy of Ecology and Capitalism written by Jacques Richard and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a substantial body of work emerging currently, seeking to address the problems caused by the economic model that has dominated the world for the last several hundred years – not least the negative impacts on the environment and sustainable health of the biosphere. This book adds to that body of literature, and brings an interesting new set of ideas into play. The author offers an approach to the philosophies and politics of nature based on a reinterpretation of the history of capitalism, in particular its concept of capital. It leads to a new anti-capitalist conception of the philosophy of ecology which takes into account at the same time history, ethics, politics, law and economics. By linking philosophy, law, economics and management, this work seeks to go beyond the mono-disciplinary and purely theoretical approaches which often characterize works devoted to the philosophy of nature, or the philosophy of ecology. It proposes a concrete philosophical alternative to modern capitalism which leads to ecological co-management and care at all levels of society, including that of political bodies, and the reform of constitutions and parliaments. In short, it is a book for a theory and a practice of environmental action in the broad sense within the framework of an institutional revolution passing in particular through the heart of the capitalist system.
Book Synopsis Value, Money, and Accounting for Pax Ecologica by : Linwood F. Tauheed
Download or read book Value, Money, and Accounting for Pax Ecologica written by Linwood F. Tauheed and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this dissertation is to conceptualize and contour an alternative provisioning system (“Pax Ecologica,” “ecocentric provisioning”) to address, account for, and coordinate humankind’s scientific-technological relationship and impact upon the Earth system. The analysis advances heterodox economics in framing a fundamentally novel planning and value-money-accounting specification for qualitatively measuring the ecological-economic provisioning dispensation. This interdisciplinary examination evinces a wholly distinct theoretical and philosophical paradigm for transitioning from the ceremonial, profit-oriented capitalist price system, to a coordination framework where ecological and a priori humanist dimensions take precedence in repurposing certain insights from classical political economy for a more distilled, robust and resolute heterodox political ecology. The investigation begins from the hypothesis that capitalism – as a historically situated provisioning arrangement of unpaid ecological and social costs – cannot dependably navigate the transition to a consequence-oriented social dispensation where accounting for human life and scientific-technological efficiency are the core guiding analytical principles. In order to reconcile the existing deficiencies the present analysis compels, among other facets, the following original contributions: 1.) an application of the ceremonial-instrumental dichotomy as a valuation mechanism for assessing discrete money-credit forms, price systems, monetary production economies, and economic indicators – e.g., GDP; 2.) a composite, multidimensional approach to value theory via modification and synthesis of the labor theory of value tradition and the instrumental value theory of Institutional Economics; 3.) an appeal to Modern Money Theory (MMT) to clearly “pre-frame” and delineate the ontological and analytical foundations necessary for specifying a novel ecocentric money-credit form; and, 4.) a substantiation of each the ecological-economic theory of value, theory of money, and money-credit form into a rhetorical (demonstrative) accounting system with qualitatively distinct accounting categories and measurement indicators – e.g., net technological progress (“ecocentric accumulation”). In sum, the results sketch a transitory adjustment path from the current ceremonial capitalist money credit form and price-competition system to an instrumental price-coordination system denominated in a supranational ecological-economic money-credit form, one that bears a functional or consequential relationship with the scientific-technological efficiency of humankind’s shared provisioning capacities. In articulating a distinctly non-capitalist – a priori humanist, scientific-technological – interdisciplinary approach to redress humankind’s use and impact on the Earth system, this dissertation further evidences the possibilities for heterodox economics to advance theoretical contributions for evaluating, specifying, and measuring novel labor and market forms; for exhibiting and establishing additional methodological possibilities and distinction; and, for further evidencing and validating the analytical potential for envisioning, conceptualizing, and generating theoretical and philosophical foundations for alternative provisioning arrangements and alternately conceived monetary production economies.
Book Synopsis Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival by : Thomas Prugh
Download or read book Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival written by Thomas Prugh and published by Sinauer Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the theoretical insights and research experience of some of the world's leading ecological economists, Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival argues that mainstream economics has misled citizens and policy makers by viewing natural capital as only a single, rather unimportant, factor of economic production. In contrast, ecological economics views it as the very foundation of the economy. Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival explains what natural capital is and does, and how it is threatened. It also proposes some revenue-neutral policy options that could restructure the economic system to encourage investment in natural capital. Such policies would work, in part, by properly valuing natural capital resources and services. By helping to "get the prices right," within the context of sustainable ecosystems and a fair distribution of resources they would promote true economic efficiency, equity and sustainability.
Book Synopsis Ecological Footprint by : Mathis Wackernagel
Download or read book Ecological Footprint written by Mathis Wackernagel and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only metric that tracks how much nature we have – and how much nature we use Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew — its biocapacity — and distils this into one number: how many Earths we use. Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a limited time, followed by a crash. Avoiding ecological bankruptcy requires rigorous resource accounting — a challenging task, but doable with the right tools. Ecological Footprint provides a complete introduction, covering: Footprint and biocapacity accounting Data and key findings for nations Worldwide examples including businesses, cities, and countries Strategies for creating regenerative economies Whether you’re a student, business leader, future-oriented city planner, economist, or have an abiding interest in humanity’s future, Footprint and biocapacity are key parameters to be reckoned with and Ecological Footprint is your essential guide. AWARDS SILVER | 2020 Eric Zencey Prize SILVER | 2019 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment FINALIST | 2019 Foreword INDIES: Ecology & Environment
Book Synopsis Green Accounting Initiatives and Strategies for Sustainable Development by : Caraiani, Chira?a
Download or read book Green Accounting Initiatives and Strategies for Sustainable Development written by Caraiani, Chira?a and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s society, environmental concerns are at the forefront of entrepreneurial decision-making and planning. With increased attention on an organization’s environmental impact, researchers and business leaders strive to provide the best methodologies and strategies for effective environmental reporting and accountability. Green Accounting Initiatives and Strategies for Sustainable Development presents the latest scholarly research on the economic, social, and environmental objectives essential to the planning and support of future organizations and communities. This publication is an essential reference source for academicians, researchers, advanced level students, and professionals interested in designing business models and financial plans with consideration for environmental and social liabilities. This publication features timely, research based chapters on economic, social, and environmental policies including, but not limited to, green performance measurement, triple bottom line reporting, sustainable societies, environmental protection, and risk and adaptive management.
Book Synopsis Human Ecology Economics by : Roy E. Allen
Download or read book Human Ecology Economics written by Roy E. Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presentshuman ecology economics as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understandingworld conditions and human systems. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates over humankinds present problems and on the ways that
Book Synopsis Green Accounting in Europe - Four Case Studies by : Anil Markandya
Download or read book Green Accounting in Europe - Four Case Studies written by Anil Markandya and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Green Accounting in Europe — Four case studies by : Anil Markandya
Download or read book Green Accounting in Europe — Four case studies written by Anil Markandya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional economic accounts, which measure Gross National Product (GNP)and related indicators of national performance, do not fully allow for the damages caused to the environment in the course of producing and consuming goods and services. Nor do they fully account for the fact that some resources are being depleted in achieving the living standards that we enjoy today. This failure is important, because policy-makers are guided by the changes in macroeconomic indicators such as GNP. Moreover such indicators are not a good guide to the sustainability of present practices of consumption and production. This book provides practical estimates of one key area of neglect in the present national accounts - the measurement of environmental damages. The book sets out the methodology for making such estimates and then applies it to data from four countries: Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and the UK. The results show what can be achieved in the way of consistent damage estimates and what the key problems are.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance by : Vikash Ramiah
Download or read book Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance written by Vikash Ramiah and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups. The Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance summarizes the latest trends and attitudes in environmental finance, balancing empirical research with theory and applications. It captures the evolution of environmental finance from a niche scholarly field to a mainstream subdiscipline, and it provides glimpses of future directions for research. Covering implications from the Kyoto and Paris Protocols, it presents an intellectually cohesive examination of problems, opportunities, and metrics worldwide. Introduces the latest developments in environmental economics, sustainable accounting work, and environmental/sustainable finance Explores the effects of environmental regulation on the economy and businesses Emphasizes research about the trade-environmental regulation nexus, relevant for economics and business students
