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Planetary Improvement : Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism /

An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that ""green capitalism"" is more capitalist than green.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goldstein, Jesse, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cleantech in NYC: The Funders Forum; What Lies Ahead â#x80;Oe; 1. Non-disruptive Disruptions; From Mother Earth to the Mother of All Markets; Energy Miracles; A Green Spirit of Capitalism; Planetary Improvement; 2. Making an Impact; Two Approaches to Entrepreneurship; Impact; Aluminum Foil and Video Games Are Boring; Go Big or Go Home; Not a Hippie, an Environmentalist (or a Communist); If You Want to Make Money, Go to Wall Street; 3. Kill the Inventor!; Mad Entrepreneurs; Bending and Being Bent; The â#x80;#x9C;A Roundâ#x80;#x9D;; Inventor Hazard.
  • Doubly Free EntrepreneursAn Enclosure of Creativity; 4. Smart Money; Environmental Crusaders; Picking Winners; Venture Capital and Fiduciary Responsibility; Smart without Money; Black Hole Capital; 5. Green Capital Denial; The â#x80;#x9C;Big Pictureâ#x80;#x9D; in Perspective; Separating the Personal from the Professional; Separating Doing from Thinking; Separating the Abstract from the Concrete; Separating Now from Later; Low-Hanging Fruit and the Persistence of Waste; Denial; 6. Whose Planet? Whose Technology?; Where Are the Visionaries â#x80;Oe with Money?; The Persistence of Petromodernity; Coda.