After a brief discussion on the possible trade-off between development and environment, a summary review of Japan’s experience in the postwar period in environmental problems and policies is undertaken separately with the focus on several institutional sectors, such as the business world,...

Economic Theory and Capitalist Society is a collection of Shigeto Tsuru’s most important essays written over the period of the past 60 years in the fields of general economic theory, development and environmental economics, and Marxian political economy.

This chapter discusses the Soviet system that serves to facilitate or prevent pollution. It discusses the extent to which the U.S.S.R.'s culture and endowment have led to or away from pollution. It discusses the way the lack of pluralism and the overwhelming emphasis on production make it...

These volumes gather together a selection of autobiographical essays written by significant economists whose work is generally recognized to be at the forefront of the discipline as we enter the twenty-first century. The essays are largely based on introductions to volumes in the Edward Elgar...