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The Perverse Economy

The Impact of Markets on People and the Environment

The Perverse Economy( )
Author: Perelman, Michael
ISBN:978-1-4039-7087-9
Publication Date:Jun 2005
Publisher:Palgrave
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $75.95
Book Description:

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the least advantaged labourers. From Adam Smith to the present day, economic theory has short-changed the workers most crucial to the functioning of human life and offered skewed views of scarcity and...
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