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Sustainable development and global climate change have figured
prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking
since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies
that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based
on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of
sustainable development. The authors focus on environmentally
compatible, long-term technology developments within the global
energy system, while also considering aspects of economic and
social sustainability. The authors analyze a large number of
alternative scenarios and illustrate the differences between those
that meet the criteria for sustainable development and those that
do not. As a result of their analysis, they identify a variety of
promising socio-economic and environmental development paths that
are consistent with sustainable development. One
sustainable-development scenario and its policy implications are
then presented in detail from a technology change perspective. The
authors propose ambitious targets for technology adoption that are
judged to achieve the desired socio-economic and environmental
goals. Although the optimal policy mix to pursue these targets is
clearly country-specific, the authors suggest that energy-related
R&D that leads to technology performance improvements and the
promotion of technology adoption in niche markets are the policy
options which will yield the most significant long-term benefits.
Policymakers, economists and researchers working on sustainability,
energy economics, and technology change and innovation will welcome
this topical and highly readable book.
Starting with the first "scientific" economists such as Cantillon
(1755) and Quesnay (1758) and ending with Piketty (2019), this book
explores the treatment of the concept of capital in the history of
accounting and economic thought. The work provides a rare
juxtaposition of the reasoning, discourse and writings of
accountants and economists. With regard to 'capital', this approach
highlights the ongoing struggle between these "uncongenial twins" -
as Kenneth Boulding put it - for primacy in analysing, and
utilising, capitalism. But if they are certainly "uncongenial", the
book also argues that it is wrong to ever classify these two
disciplines as "twins" because they have taken very different paths
ever since scientism came to dominate in economics and ethical and
moral considerations were put to one side. This book will be of
significant interest to readers to history of economic thought,
critical accounting and heterodox economics.
Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist,
have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the
underpinning systems of accounting. This book draws attention to
this lacuna, focusing specifically on the concept of capital: a
major concept that dominates all teaching and practice in both
economics and management. It is argued that while for the
practitioners of capitalism - in accounting and business - the
capital in their accounts is a debt to be repaid (or a thing to be
kept), for economists, it has been considered a means (or even a
resource or an asset) intended to be worn out. This category error
has led to economists failing to comprehend the true nature of
capitalism. On this basis, this book proposes a new definition of
capitalism that brings about considerable changes in the attitude
to be had towards this economic system, in particular, the means to
bring about its replacement. This book will be of significant
interest to readers of political economy, history of economic
thought, critical accounting and heterodox economics.
The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to
preserve capitalism in its current form. Thus, building a more
humane economy will require a new accounting model. Humanitarian
Ecological Economics and Accounting: Capitalism, Ecology and
Democracy argues for the adoption of a CARE model: comprehensive
accounting in respect of ecology. This new model will take the
traditional weapons of capitalist accounting and turn them against
capitalism, with a goal to protect and conserve human and natural
capital within the framework of a democratic society. The CARE
model has been conceived as the potential basis of a new type of
market economy and of a new type of governance of firms and
nations. Additionally, this allows for a new conception of capital,
cost and profit that helps with moves towards a society of the
commons. The first part of the book explores the reconstruction of
accounting and economics from the ground up, outlining the
theoretical basis for the model. The second part of the book
explores the transformation of the governance of firms and nations.
Finally, an additional section is dedicated to the conception of a
new model of national accounting. This book will be of significant
interest to readers of ecological economics, critical accounting
and heterodox economics.
It is the inner meaning of Handel's music, and its power of
searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the
following pages the author has endeavoured, so far as the author
was able, to elucidate. Its merely technical qualities have already
been discussed enough and to spare. Books on Handel written by
musicians already abound, but musicians as a rule take more
interest in the means by which an end is attained than the end
itself. They tell us a great deal about the methods by which a
composer expresses himself, but very little about what he actually
has to express. The author has tried, how feebly and with what
little success no one knows better than himself, to find the man
Handel in his music, to trace his character, his view of life, his
thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, as they are set forth in his
works.
A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary
composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century.
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original
and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse
involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues.
Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres -
including company websites, advertisements, press articles,
speeches and lectures - Alexander interrogates how in the media,
press, corporate and activist circles language is employed to argue
for and propagate selected positions on the growing ecological
crisis. For example, he asks: How are ecological and environmental
concerns articulated in texts? What do we learn about ecological
'problems' through texts from differing sources? What language
features accompany ecological discourse in differing contexts and
registers? Attention is especially directed at where this discourse
comes into contact with business, economic and political
concerns.
It is the inner meaning of Handel's music, and its power of
searching the profoundest recesses of the soul, that in the
following pages I have endeavoured, so far as I am able, to
elucidate. Its merely technical qualities have already been
discussed enough and to spare. Books on Handel written by musicians
already abound, but musicians as a rule take more interest in the
means by which an end is attained than the end itself. They tell us
a great deal about the methods by which a composer expresses
himself, but very little about what he actually has to express. I
have tried, how feebly and with what little success no one knows
better than myself, to find the man Handel in his music, to trace
his character, his view of life, his thoughts, feelings, and
aspirations, as they are set forth in his works.
A plethora of biographical accounts of some of the contemporary
composers and musicians at the turn of the twentieth century.
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and
empirically based case studies of the language and discourse
involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues.
Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres --
including company websites, advertisements, press articles,
speeches and lectures -- Alexander interrogates how in the media,
press, corporate and activist circles language is employed to argue
for and propagate selected positions on the growing ecological
crisis. For example, he asks: How are ecological and environmental
concerns articulated in texts? What do we learn about ecological
problems' through texts from differing sources? What language
features accompany ecological discourse in differing contexts and
registers? Attention is especially directed at where this discourse
comes into contact with business, economic and political concerns.
New International Business English is a best-selling course for
upper intermediate (B2) level learners who need to use English in
their day-to-day work. In this revised edition, all four language
skills listening, speaking, reading and writing are developed
through a variety of tasks that closely reflect the world of work.
The 15 topic-based units in New International Business English
provide learners with numerous opportunities for discussion and
cover a wide range of subjects, including face-to-face business
skills and techniques, telephone skills, international trade,
marketing, meetings, and sales and negotiations."
Despite wide acceptance that the attributes of living creatures
have appeared through a cumulative evolutionary process guided
chiefly by natural selection, many human activities have seemed
analytically inaccessible through such an approach. Prominent
evolutionary biologists, for example, have described morality as
contrary to the direction of biological evolution, and moral
philosophers rarely regard evolution as relevant to their
discussions. "The Biology of Moral Systems" adopts the position
that moral questions arise out of conflicts of interest, and that
moral systems are ways of using confluences of interest at lower
levels of social organization to deal with conflicts of interest at
higher levels. Moral systems are described as systems of indirect
reciprocity: humans gain and lose socially and reproductively not
only by direct transactions, but also by the reputations they gain
from the everyday flow of social interactions. The author develops
a general theory of human interests, using senescence and effort
theory from biology, to help analyze the patterning of human
lifetimes. He argues that the ultimate interests of humans are
reproductive, and that the concept of morality has arisen within
groups because of its contribution to unity in the context,
ultimately, of success in intergroup competition. He contends that
morality is not easily relatable to universals, and he carries this
argument into a discussion of what he calls the greatest of all
moral problems, the nuclear arms race. "Crammed with sage
observations on moral dilemmas and many reasons why an
understanding of evolution based on natural selection will advance
thinking in finding practical solutions to our most difficult
social problems." u "Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Sciences" "Richard D. Alexander" is Donald Ward Tinkle
Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, and
Curator of Insects, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. A
recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Alexander is the author of
"Darwinism and Human Affairs."
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