Written by Brett Caraway
Examining both economic thought and technological development through a historical lens, Brett Caraway sheds light on the relationship between patterns of economic growth and innovation on the one hand and escalating environmental and ecological crises on the other hand.
The book is organized into two parts. In the first part, Caraway surveys the major theoretical frameworks and analytical approaches to the study of the linkages among value, economic growth, technological innovation, and environmental/ecological crises. He highlights contributions from pre-economic schools of thought, classical political economy, neoclassical economics, environmental economics, ecological economics, and Marxian theory.
In the second half of the book, Caraway provides an overview of the history of the relationship between energy and wealth, paying particular attention to the Industrial Revolution and the concomitant development of an information economy.
Diverse in scope, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental economics, sustainability, environmental communication, and eco-media studies.
Brett Caraway is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he serves as the Director of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management program.
The above text is from the publisher’s description of the book:
Title: A Critical Introduction to the Economics of Sustainability
Author: Brett Caraway
Published: 2026
Pages: 210
Publisher: Routledge
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