{"product_id":"limits-giorgos-kallis-9781503611559","title":"Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits--a notion central to environmentalism--clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ideology and politics that go along with it. Giorgos Kallis rereads reverend-economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his legacy, separating limits and scarcity, two notions that have long been conflated in both environmental and economic thought. Limits are not something out there, a property of nature to be deciphered by scientists, but a choice that confronts us, one that, paradoxically, is part and parcel of the pursuit of freedom. Taking us from ancient Greece to Malthus, from hunter-gatherers to the Romantics, from anarchist feminists to 1970s radical environmentalists, \u003ci\u003eLimits\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how an institutionalized culture of sharing can make possible the collective self-limitation we so urgently need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giorgos Kallis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503611558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503611559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford Briefs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Giorgos Kallis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995023868159,"sku":"9781503611559","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_654f820b-703e-4ee6-a655-650f9d918d56.jpg?v=1683333524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/limits-giorgos-kallis-9781503611559","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}