by Jack P. Manno

What are the obstacles in the way of effectively resolving the environmental crises of our time? What can we do to overcome them? Privileged Goods: Commoditization and Its Impacts on Environment and Society, is a new book from Lewis Publishers and the International Society for Ecological Economics. Privileged Goods suggests that our propensity toward environmental destruction can be understood as resulting from poorly understood economic forces. These forces act as selection pressures systematically biasing systems of production and consumption toward ever-increasing mobilization of energy and materials with all its related environmental stress. Interdisciplinary in scope, Privileged Goods will appeal to a wide variety of environmental activists and professionals. It explains key concepts associated with the notion of commoditization and links these with an understanding of the causes of social oppression, discusses the history of public economic policy, and analyzes the similarities between the sustainable development movement of today and the appropriate technology movement of the 1970s. 30-day examination is available to review a book for class adoption.

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