{"product_id":"9781529144192-on-natural-capital","title":"On Natural Capital","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Value of the World Around Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most important person you've never heard of' - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need… by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute – and in doing so, save ourselves.’ - David Attenborough\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is the best book in economics for a general reader since Adam Smith’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wealth of Nations\u003c\/i\u003e.' - Paul R Ehrlich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Imagine a football team which measures its success only on the basis of the goals it scores and doesn’t count the goals it concedes. That football team could be losing right through without recognising it…’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe models and metrics tells us that our economies are healthy because they are growing. However, this doesn't account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for free and treat as infinite: nature. For centuries we have been using it as if it were both, but we know now, more than ever, that our demand on the natural world is unsustainable. It's no longer sufficient to only see part of the picture; it's time that our economic models show us the whole thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn Natural Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta lays out a seminal and groundbreaking new approach to economics. Challenging everything that has come before, he asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics,\u003ci\u003e On Natural Capital \u003c\/i\u003eis a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53571796894070,"sku":"9781529144192","price":19.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39229872_c1925284-4ff8-4db4-a2ea-97a60832cad1.jpg?v=1767100921","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529144192-on-natural-capital","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}