{"product_id":"green-capitalism-9780812249019","title":"Green Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan capitalism ever truly be environmentally conscious? Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century provides a historical analysis of the relationship between business interests and environmental initiatives over the past century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fresh and thought-provoking . . . [W]hat makes this volume stand out is its emphasis on creative deployment of business history techniques to get at new understandings of manmade ecological change. By paying close attention to firm structure and strategy-the stuff of old-school business history-these authors show how historical research into corporations might offer innovative solutions to the pressing global environmental problems we face today.\" * \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]he ambiguity highlighted in \u003ci\u003eGreen Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is the type that enables readers to develop more sophisticated interpretations of-or at least approaches to-green capitalism interpretations and approaches that defy caricature and can't be adequately conveyed on a bumper sticker . . . One puts down this fine book convinced of the importance of the longstanding relationship between business and the environment, more aware of the complexities and contradictions involved in said relationship, and yes, more understanding of the increasing power of the concept of green capitalism today.\"\" * \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGreen Capitalism?\u003c\/i\u003e is a very forward-looking volume in its focus on how the two 'isms'-capitalism and environmentalism-might find common cause. Taken together, these excellent essays tell a story regarding the challenges of 'green capitalism' that readers of both history and environmental policy will find useful.\" * Sean Adams, University of Florida *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGreen Capitalism?\u003c\/i\u003e is an in-depth, and carefully analyzed, contribution to the relatively unexplored intersection of business history and environmental history.\" * Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —Roger Horowitz\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE BIG PICTURE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Ecology of Commerce: Environmental History and the Challenge of Building a Sustainable Economy\u003cbr\u003e —Adam Rome 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Shades of Green: A Business-History Perspective on Eco-Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e —Hartmut Berghoff\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Role of Businesses in Constructing Systems of Environmental Governance\u003cbr\u003e —Hugh S. Gorman\u003cbr\u003e PART II. CONSERVATION BEFORE ENVIRONMENTALISM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America\u003cbr\u003e —Christine Meisner Rosen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"Constructive and Not Destructive Development\": Permanent Uses of Resources in the American South\u003cbr\u003e —William D. Bryan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Utilities as Conservationists? The Paradox of Electrification During the Progressive Era in North America\u003cbr\u003e —Julie Cohn\u003cbr\u003e PART III. FAILURES AND DILEMMAS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Plastic Six-Pack Rings: The Business and Politics of an Environmental Problem\u003cbr\u003e —David Kinkela\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ecostar: Green Technology Innovation and Marketing as Regulatory Obstruction\u003cbr\u003e —Leif Fredrickson\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. GOING GREEN\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Dilemmas of Going Green: Environmental Strategies in the Swedish Mining Company Boliden, 1960-2000\u003cbr\u003e —Ann-Kristin Bergquist\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Private Companies and the Recycling of Household Waste in West Germany, 1965-1990\u003cbr\u003e —Roman Köster\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Kill-a-Watt: The Greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Joseph A. Pratt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy\u003cbr\u003e —Geoffrey Jones\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Driving Change: The Winding Road to Greener Automobiles\u003cbr\u003e —Brian C. Black\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405729734999,"sku":"9780812249019","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812249019.jpg?v=1730493424","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/green-capitalism-9780812249019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}