Volume 5: The Political Economy of Inequality
By Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher Editors Foreword by Derek Bok (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000) 448 pages
Category: Publications by Topics
Volume 2: A Civil Economy: Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century
By Severyn T. Bruyn This volume is part of the series Evolving Values for a Capitalist World A civil society is one in which a democratic government and a market economy operate together. The idea of the civil economy–encompassing a democratic government and a market economy–presumes that people can solve social problems within the market […]
High Risk Economics: Gambling on Cost-Benefit Analysis for Arsenic Standards
Comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August 2000.
Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?
By Frank Ackerman and Sumreen Mirza. June 2000
Basic Principles of Sustainable Development
By Jonathan M. Harris. June 2000
Still Dead After All These Years: Interpreting the Failure of General Equilibrium Theory
By Frank Ackerman November 1999
Volume 4: The Changing Nature of Work
By Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher Editors Foreword by Robert Reich (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998) 432 pages
Volume 3: Human Well-Being and Economic Goals
By Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jonathan M. Harris, and Kevin Gallagher Editors Foreword by Tibor Scitovsky (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997) 395 pages
Why Do We Recycle? Markets, Values, and Public Policy Island
By Frank Ackerman Press, Washington, DC, 1997 Hardcover: $35.00; Paperback: $19.95, 210 pages For order information (hardcover), click here. For order information (paperback), click here Ackerman’s thoughtful, sure-to-be-controversial study lifts the debate over the merits of recycling to a new level . . .” — PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY “Remarkably sober, readable, and revealing. Essential for those connected to […]
Volume 2: The Consumer Society
By Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron Editors Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997) 385 pages