Bad Beliefs, Bad Outcomes

Richard B. Norgaard is Professor Emeritus of Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley. He is among the founders of Ecological Economics and a transdisciplinary scholar working at the science-policy interface.

• ForewordPrologue: Life is Sacred IntroductionChapter 1 Economics as ReligionChapter 2 Modern Economic BeliefsChapter 3 The Nature of Economics—Through the Eyes of Ronald H. CoaseChapter 4 Equity: A Chosen IgnoranceChapter 5 A Delusionally Conceived CornucopiaChapter 6 Dead Wrong Policy AnalysisChapter 7 The Elusive Environmental Kuznets CurveChapter 8 Commoditizing the Complex Evolving Natural OrderChapter 9 Globalizing Structural Sin: Not Even Good EconomicsChapter 10 Three Economic Models of Climate ChangeChapter 11 Optimizing Nature’s End Chapter 12 Americanizing American Indians: A Sordid Tale of Property and ModernityChapter 13 Collective Cognizance: A Brief HistoryChapter 14 A Pluriverse of Learning Cultures with People Living in RelationalityChapter 15 Tenets for Collective Cognizance in Tumultuous TimesConcluding Hopes References

'Among the best critics of today's reigning economics and the mindset it supports, one sometimes finds economists. And one of the most profound and historically acute of them is Richard Norgaard. His new book leads not to the shoring up of a flawed economics but to something radically different. Highly recommended.'