| The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice) | 
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Category: Book
Author: Mark Sagoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Label: Cambridge University Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0521687136
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.70560973
EAN: 9780521687133
ASIN: 0521687136
Publication Date: December 3, 2007
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Mark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensive revision of The Economy of the Earth. Posing questions pertinent to consumption, cost-benefit analysis, the normative implications of neo-Darwinism, the role of the natural in national history, and the centrality of the concept of place in environmental ethics, he analyzes social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safely and health. Sagoff distinguishes ethical from economic questions and explains which kinds of concepts, arguments, and processes are appropriate to each.
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 The New and the Old Sagoff September 15, 2008
Potential customers should note that The Economy of the Earth was released in an extensively revised second edition in 2008. When I checked the Amazon site in September, they were selling the first edition as a hardback and the second as paper. Both editions are worth reading. The first edition contains discussions of property rights and environmental politics dropped from the new edition, while the new edition includes discussions on ecosystem services, consumption and conservation science not included in the first.
 Critique of cost-benefit analysis for environmental matters June 27, 2000
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Prof. Sagoff demonstrates the problematic nature of an economic approach to environmental decisionmaking. Even granting that we could quantify environmental values in dollar terms, he raises the important question of why we would want to do such a thing. The author argues that questions of balancing environmental values against other "goods" should be decided in the public political arena, and not by reference to people's private willingness to pay. Somewhat puzzling is Sagoff's adherence to a utilitarian philosophy; I'm still waiting for someone to point out the obvious liberty and distributive-justice problems with cost-benefit analysis in the sphere of environmental regulation.
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