Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

Scarcity

A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

2023 • 305 pages

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual history. Showing how ideologies of infinite desire and infinite growth came to dominate capitalist societies, they argue for alternative modes of economic thought that respect nature’s boundaries in the face of climate crisis.

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