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Navigating the Titanic outlines the brief history of economic growth and the private and public institutions - markets, corporations, households, and governments - which underpin that growth. Bryne Purchase examines mega-risks related to our economy's use of fossil fuels and specifically looks...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purchase, Bryne Brock, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal & Kingston : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
Colección:Queen's policy studies.
Temas:
Economic development > United States.
Economic development > Canada.
Power resources > Environmental aspects > United States.
Power resources > Environmental aspects > Canada.
Climatic changes > Risk management > United States.
Climatic changes > Risk management > Canada.
Industrial policy > United States.
Industrial policy > Canada.
Développement économique > États-Unis.
Développement économique > Canada.
Ressources énergétiques > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
Ressources énergétiques > Aspect de l'environnement > Canada.
Climat > Changements > Gestion du risque > États-Unis.
Climat > Changements > Gestion du risque > Canada.
Politique industrielle > États-Unis.
Politique industrielle > Canada.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Climatic changes > Risk management
Economic development
Industrial policy
Power resources > Environmental aspects
Wirtschaftswachstum
Nachhaltigkeit
Energiewirtschaft
Canada
United States
USA
Kanada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Navigating the Titanic outlines the brief history of economic growth and the private and public institutions - markets, corporations, households, and governments - which underpin that growth. Bryne Purchase examines mega-risks related to our economy's use of fossil fuels and specifically looks at resource depletion, energy security, and climate change - all "mega-risks" because they are both global in scope and potentially existential in impact. Focusing on North America, with a particular emphasis on the United States, Purchase's central argument is that the institutions which have produced spectacular economic growth are not capable of acting with prudence to deal with these mega-risks before they become a real danger. He identifies certain institutional design flaws that, while underwriting economic growth, leave society open to potentially catastrophic failure and reveals how these design flaws have been compounded by the stresses of the growing income inequality in society
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 156 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156).
ISBN:9781553393351
155339335X
9781553395072
1553395077

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