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Green Economics

An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

Molly Scott Cato

London • Sterling, VA

First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2009

ISBN: 978-1-84407-571-3 (pb)

978-1-84407-570-6 (hb)

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Cover design by Rob Watts

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Green economics : An introduction to theory, policy and practice / Molly Scott

Cato.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84407-570-6 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-84407-571-3 (paperback)

1. Environmental economics. 2. Economics–Sociological aspects. 3. Sustainable

living. 4. Economic policy. 5. Social policy I. Title.

HC79.E5C383 2008

333.7–dc22

2008036287

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For James Robertson,

The Grandfather of Green Economics

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth

even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which

Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it

looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail.

Oscar Wilde