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The Price is Wrong
Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
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Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues in The Price is Wrong,...
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Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis
Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis
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Description
Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all.
As Brett Christophers argues in The Price is Wrong, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the planet on which our lives depend is not sufficiently profitable.
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ISBN: 9781804292310
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 May 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 341g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Brett Christophers is a political economist and economic geographer, and the author of Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Rentier Capitalism and of The New Enclosure, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
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