Green Politics and Neo-Liberalism

by David Toke

Overview

Green Politics and the Culture of Consumerism uses environmental policy to demonstrate the weaknesses of rational choice theory and the strengths of discourse analysis. It builds on this distinction to adapt the green critique of the external costs of economic growth and to examine the links between stress, social division, and excessive competition that are associated with neoliberalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312235888
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/12/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Dave Toke is Lecturer in Green Politics, University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Discourse, Power and Environmental Policy
• Rational Choice Theory and Environmental Policy Science, Politics and Environmentalists
• Neoliberalism
• Health and Materialism
• The Politics of Performance
• A Green Alternative
• Truth, Technology and Progress
• Concluding Comments

Editorial Reviews

Beginning by discounting the model of rational thought as a useful tool for environmental decision making, Toke (U. of Birmingham) examines possible other methods of selecting environmental theories and practices. The book has two main sections. First is a critique of public choice theory and rational choice theory, both of which hold that political outcomes can best be modeled by examining how individuals pursue their own self interests. Second, and in response, a presentation of an alternative mode of analysis; the green theory which he believes to be a better tool for evaluating the costs of economic growth, and for showing the connection between social division, stress and excessive competition and neo-liberalism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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