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  • On Natural Capital

    The Value of the World Around Us

    From the man that the New York Times calls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a simple yet profound question—what if we put a value on nature, just as we put a value on everything else?For just about everything of value in life, there is an economic model. If it matters to us, we ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Time and the Generations

    Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population size for sustainability, no one has attempted to synthesize the concerns and values of these ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Biodiversity

    The Dasgupta Review

    We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen production; and provide us with spiritual fulfilment and opportunities for recreation and recuperation, which can enhance our health and well-being. Nature's constituents such as ecosystems and the biodiversity that are ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Midwest USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time and the Generations

    Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population size for sustainability, no one has attempted to synthesize the concerns and values of these ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Environmental Economics

    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Environmental Economics
    Handbook in Environmental Economics, Volume 4, the latest in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely chapters on Modeling Ecosystems and Economic Systems, Framing Sustainability Policy Questions: Who Leads – Ecology or Economics?, Valuing Natural Capital Within an Integrated Economic Ecological, Developing Economies, Urbanization, Climate ... Read more

    $238.99 CAD

  • Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy

    Series series RFF Energy Policy Set
    This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    On Natural Capital

    The Value of the World Around Us

    Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 12 min

    From the man that the New York Times calls “the most important person you’ve never heard of,” renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, asking a simple yet profound question—what if we put a value on nature, just as we put a value on everything else?Narrated by Sid Sagar.For just about everything of value in life, there is an economic model. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Biological Extinction

    New Perspectives

    The rapidly increasing human pressure on the biosphere is pushing biodiversity into the sixth mass extinction event in the history of life on Earth. The organisms being exterminated are integral working parts of our planet's life support system, and their loss is permanent. Like climate change, this irreversible loss has potentially devastating consequences for humanity. As we come to recognise ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Memory

    A Very Short Introduction

    Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    Memories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them, and in our lives we collect more of them with each new experience. Without memory, you would not be able to maintain a relationship, drive your car, talk to your children, read a poem, watch television, or do much of anything at all.Memory: A Very Short Introduction explores the fascinating intricacies of human memory. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus