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Prosperity, poverty and pollution

Name: Prosperity, poverty and pollution
Author: Klaus Nurnberger
ISBN: 9781856497305

by Klaus Nurnberger

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This book stands out amid the many works critical of mainstream economics for its author’s reader-friendly intention to make accessible the problems of how countries in the South can develop successfully, what to do about social injustice and poverty, and the global environmental destruction that is proceeding apace. Klaus Nürnberger has transcended his background as an economist to present a holistic analysis of the human and environmental failings of our current market economy. He draws on recent thinking in a variety of disciplines, and his arguments relate both to political economy and to people’s worldviews.

About the Author, Klaus Nurnberger

Klaus Nürnberger is Professor of Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

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Viewing with alarm a possible future ecological destruction, social collapse, and economic disaster, the author attempts to construct a model for sustainable development which will bring equality and harmony to the world. Relying heavily on a center versus periphery approach, the logic of the argument of the book as a whole begins with analysis of social structures, moves to a transformation of collective consciousness, then to a new approach in economics, and finally to the transformation of social structures. Paper edition (unseen), $27.50. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)