More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvJeremy Walker

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This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-15
Mått148 x 210 x 26 mm
Vikt613 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor374
Upplaga20001
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811539350

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1. Neoliberalism, environmentalism and the crisis of the 1970s.- 2. Oikonomia: on metaphor, science, and natural order.- 3. On photosynthesis and pyrotechnics:life between fire and law.- 4. Industrial machines and the discovery of the economy.- 5. The market as moral law: Providence, starvation and liberal Empire.- 6. The fire machine: economics as a social physics of natural law.- 7. Economics as agnotology: unlimited growth and the limits of knowledge.- 8. The Age of Ecology.- 9. Oeconomy of nature: the balance of nature and the struggle for existence.- 10. Super-organism: American ecology and national development.- 11. Energy, ecology and the Great World Engine.- 12. Ecologist as cyborg: the military origins of the subversive science.- 13. Power and entropy: the limits of ecological economics.- 14. Genealogies of resilience: from conservation to disaster adaptation.