What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these and other questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural assets, and why we would have to save to invest. The message is a tough one: we are way off course in terms of meeting these conditions and we cannot escape the consequences.
“…a powerful argument for valuing future generations which means saving and investing now so as to live sustainably” – David Willetts, President of the Resolution Foundations
“Dieter Helm does not pull his punches in this forthright and powerful book… Some will assert that the revolution he seeks is impossible. Helm counters that it is inescapable.”
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – published by Cambridge University Press; available in hardback and paperback. This is an Open Access title.
