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Title:
Green capitalism? : business and the environment in the twentieth century / edited by Hartmut Berghoff and Adam Rome.
Edition:
1st edition.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Environmentalism--History--History--20th century.
Capitalism--History--History--20th century.
Business enterprises--History--History--20th century.
Environmental policy--History--History--20th century.
Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
Capitalism--Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
Environmentalism--Economic aspects.
1900-1999
Alternative Wirtschaft
Kapitalismus
Umweltpolitik
Unternehmen
History.
Other Authors:
Berghoff, Hartmut, editor.
Rome, Adam, 1959- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Driving change: the winding road to greener automobiles / Brian C. Black. Shades of green: a business-history perspective on eco-capitalism / Hartmut Berghoff -- The role of businesses in constructing systems of environmental governance / Hugh S. Gorman -- Business leadership in the movement to regulate industrial air pollution in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America / Christine Meisner Rosen -- "Constructive and not destructive development": permanent uses of resources in the American South / William D. Bryan -- Utilities as conservationists? the paradox of electrification during the progressive era in North America / Julie Cohn -- Plastic six-pack rings: the business and politics of an environmental problem / David Kinkela -- The rise and fall of an ecostar: green technology innovation and marketing as regulatory obstruction / Leif Fredrickson -- Dilemmas of going green: environmental strategies in the Swedish mining company Boliden, 1960-2000 / Ann-Kristin Bergquist -- Private companies and the recycling of household waste in West Germany, 1965-1990 / Roman KoĢˆster -- Kill-a-watt: the greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s / Joseph A. Pratt -- Entrepreneurship, policy, and the geography of wind energy / Geoffrey Jones -- Driving change: the winding road to greener automobiles / Brian C. Black.
Series:
Hagley perspectives on business and culture
ISBN:
0812249011 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812249019 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2016052374
Locations:
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

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