How Should I Live My Life?: Psychology, Environmental Science, and Moral Traditions

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 181 páginas
A truly cross-disciplinary study of psychology, theology, economics, and environmental science, How Should I Live My Life presents an overview of human beliefs and institutions that have led to the emerging global ecological threats. By viewing societal institutions and the psychology that spawns them, George S. Howard gets to the root causes of global ecological crises and provides an effective roadmap for changing the disastrous course that humans face. With detailed descriptions of economic and psycological methods that lead to the choices that society has made, Howard puts forth his vision for society's path in a well-rounded argument for changing the course of economic and environmental policies practiced by the governments of the world today.
 

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Possible Human Natures
ix
Introduction Why Change Is Needed
1
Constructive Realism
15
Stories Stories Everywhere But Not a Truth to Think
25
The Perfect Class
45
The Tragedy of Maximization
61
REENGINEERING WASTEFUL SYSTEMS
73
Habits at First Are Silken Threads
75
Against the Idols of Our Day
119
In Praise of the Common Good
123
It Is Easier for a Camel
133
Buddhist Economics
143
Gandhis Seven Sins
155
Conclusion Changing Human Societies
161
References
165
Index
173

Cheap Is Beautiful Is Your Money Working as Hard as You Are?
85
Green Taxes
97
Imagine
105

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George S. Howard is professor of psychology and Morahan Director of the Core Course Program at the University of Notre Dame. A researcher in applied psychology and research methods, he has written numerous books and articles inlcuding, Basic Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Ecological Psychology: Creating a More Earth-Friendly Human Nature. Howard is a Faculty Fellow in both the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame.

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