Titlebook: Consumption, Jobs and the Environment; A Fourth Way? Roy Carr-Hill,John Lintott Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

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The Employment Problem recent post-Second-World War phenomenon. Indeed, in most free human societies — that is, those not based on slavery — the objective for most of the population has been to work as little as possible in order to enjoy life as much as possible (Sahtins, 1974). There is no evidence that the genetic mak

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Ecological Impacts and Risksdirectly, and ‘external’ to economic transactions in the sense that those suffering the impact are generally not the ones gaining from the activity. This has long been known, but with industrialisation such impacts became greater, as did pressure to reduce them. National legislation against air poll

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Consumptionning or perhaps improving welfare, even leaving aside the ecological (Chapter 2) and employment (Chapter 3) costs of consumption. As Schumacher puts it, ‘… since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should he to obtain the maximum of wellbeing with the minimum of consumption’ (

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Orthodox and Green Solutionsonomic (or not so economic) activity may reduce rather than improve welfare. This chapter focuses on the policies which have been implemented or proposed, from orthodox or green perspectives, to influence the extent of this activity or mitigate the consequences.