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| For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, & a Sustainable Future: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, & a Sustainable Future | 
 enlarge | Authors: Herman E. Daly, John B. Cobb Jr
Publisher: Beacon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 353073
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Up&exp
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 534
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0807047058
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.9
UPC: 046442047050
EAN: 9780807047057
ASIN: 0807047058
Publication Date: November 1, 1991
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 Thought-Provoking in Every Way August 6, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To dismiss this book as leftist ranting or environmental hysteria is simply wrong -- and I would bet that the reviewers offering these opinions did not read the whole book. This book offers a stunning combination of ecological economics and philospohical critique. It is this dual focus that helps it avoid the dryness of most economics books and the abstractness of most environmental treatises. At bottom, Daly and Cobb are pushing for more human and manageable SCALE: meaningful work in more localized economies. Only by creating these smaller units, where entire processes can be grasped and influenced, can people change the way they think and live. The book crescendos with a discussion of the human prospect itself -- whether or not our species is on an inherently self-destructive trajectory, thanks to our very powers of ingenuity and adaptabilty. This is a book that should produce a profound change in the reader; but only if it is read slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully.
Excellent critique Global-Capitalism -- good/bad solutions. May 12, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Agrarian Localist that I am, with roots in the cultural and political Right -- Daly was refreshing and often challenging from the 'New and Improved Left. He brilliantly and repeatedly shows the 'fallacy of misplaced concreteness'-- that is the dubious use of logical abstractions which supposedly lead to good conclusions. NOT! In logic, it is similar to 'the undistributed middle'-- or in laymen's terms -- there is yet far too much we simply don't know to conclude 'this'. Those pegging him a traditional UN Internationalists look like blind Libertarians who are simply dead wrong, and didn't read carefully. Daly is a modest Decentralists/Federalists' in calling for a 'return to the Local'. His call is for a federalism with far more attention to Local and Regional markets and development than we've had in this country since Lincoln. Yet Daly still uncomfortablly allows for some heiarchialism at national and international levels. Suprisingly, he uncritically buys all the status-quo environmental hysteria as 'Fact', indeed 'wild facts' he calls them. Thus, you have a mixd book -- full of brilliant and insightful critique -- and sullied by a good bit of carried-over authoritarian leftism. David E. Rockett
 Interesting though a bit biased in analysis September 8, 1998
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The text is not bad in any way; meaning that the conclusions are reachable based on the assumptions made to get there. Although definitely biased against "free-market" (which is clearly not "free" nor a "market" in the examples chosen), it is not as prescriptive as I had expected. Perhaps four stars is a bit generous, but the book was better than I expected and better than most of this genre. If someone is interested in getting a left-end-of-center view on the issues of sustainability, it does have some good commentary.
 United Nations proponent, environmentalist and socialist. January 27, 1998
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
A very leftist view point that encourages to not let the common individual make his own decisions in a free market place, unless of course those decisions are in line with the philosophy of the United Nations, otherwise they are over ruled by the self-appointed "I am right" elitists.
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