Introduction: Beyond one concept of scarcity -- 1. Notions of scarcity before 1600 -- 2. Cornucopian scarcity -- 3. Enlightened scarcity -- 4. Romantic scarcity -- 5. Malthusian scarcity -- 6. Capitalist scarcity and socialist scarcity -- 7. Neoclassical scarcity -- 8. Planetary scarcity -- Conclusion: Toward an age of repair? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary
"Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect nature's boundaries in the face of climate crisis"-- Provided by publisher
