The Logic of Sufficiency

摘要: What if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and ecological integrity resource base? it took constraint as given, not hindrance but source long-term economic security? How would organize itself, structure industry, shape consumption?Across time across cultures, people actually have adapted to constraint. They changed behavior; they built institutions. And developed norms principles for their time. Today's environmental challenges -- at once global, technological, commercial require new behaviors, institutions, principles.In this highly original work, Thomas Princen builds one such principle: sufficiency. Sufficiency is about denial, sacrifice or doing without. Rather, when depletion overconsumption are real, sufficiency well. It good work governance; goods that only point.With examples ranging from timbering fishing automobility meat production, shows perfectly sensible yet absolutely contrary society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues seeking enough more possible both intuitive rational personally, organizationally ecologically rational. under global constraint, ethical. Over long term, an economy indeed cannot operate there's never too much.