Course Outline -- Week 12
Wk 12 – Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Required
O’Connor, M., "Introduction," pp. 1-22 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Alier, Juan Martinez, "Ecological Economics and Ecosocialism," pp. 23-36 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
O’Connor, M., "Codependency and Indeterminancy: A Critique of the Theory of Production," pp. 53-75 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Beckenbach, Frank, "Social Costs in Modern Capitalism," pp. 91-105 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Salleh, Ariel, "Nature, Woman, Labor, Capital: Living the Deepest Contradiction," pp. 106-124 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
O’Connor, M. "On the Misadventures of Capitalist Nature," pp. 125-151 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
O’Connor, J., "Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible?," pp. 152-175 in M. O’Connor, ed., Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Recommended
Meadows, Donella H., et al., "The Limits to Growth," ch. 1 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth
World Commission on Environment and Development, "From One Earth to One World," ch. 17 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth
Daly, Herman, "Sustainable Growth: an Impossibility Theorem," ch. 19 in Dryzek and Schlosberg, eds., Debating the Earth
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1999. "Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production," pp. xx-xx in Goldfrank, et al., eds., Ecology and the World-System
Norgaard, Richard. 1995. "Metaphors We Might Survive By," Ecological Economics 15(2):129-131 (RR)
Roberts, J. Timmons. 1996. "Global Restructuring and the Environment in Latin America," Pp. 187-210 in R. Korzeniewicz and W.C. Smith, eds., Latin America and the World Economy (RR)
Other
Bunker, Underdeveloping the Amazon (V)
last updated January 25, 2002