Economics of the Anthropocene Age

Adolfo Figueroa is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is the author of two previous books with Palgrave Macmillan, Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment (2015) and Rules for Scientific Research in Economics (2016).

• ​1. Economic Growth with Social Maladies.- 2. Power Structure and Democracy.- 3. Evolutionary Human Behavior.- 4. Consumerism in the Economic Growth Process.- 5. Individual Freedom and the Common Good.- 6. Anthropocene Age Economics.- 7. New Economic Principles for the Anthropocene Age.- 8. Epilogue.

“Figueroa takes us on a journey to understand the synergies between economic growth, income inequality, and environmental degradation within an overarching framework entitled ‘unified theory’. … The overall framework gives an evolutionary system of human interactions which accounts for both biological and social needs and shows how these are shaped by social environment.” (Aurelie Charles, The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 54 (8), 2018)