{"id":6792,"date":"2017-01-30T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:05:45","slug":"todd-mei-publishes-on-the-philosophy-and-economics-of-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/30\/todd-mei-publishes-on-the-philosophy-and-economics-of-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Mei publishes on the philosophy and economics of land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/mei.html\">Dr Todd Mei<\/a>, Lecturer and Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, has just published a new book,\u00a0<em>Land and the Given Economy: The Hermeneutics and Phenomenology of Dwelling<\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Alarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgent the reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Todd\u2019s book examines how the landed basis of human existence converges with economics, and it offers a persuasive new conception of land that transcends the flawed and inadequate accounts in classical and neoclassical economics.<\/p>\n<p>Todd grounds this work in a rigorous review of problematic economic conceptions of land in the work of John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Henry George, Alfred Marshall, and Thorstein Veblen.<\/p>\n<p>Todd then draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to posit a philosophical clarification of the meaning of land\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0its ontological nature. He argues that central to rethinking land is recognising its unique manner of being, described as its \u2018givenness\u2019. Concluding with a discussion of ground rent, he reflects on specific strategies for incorporating the philosophical account of land into contemporary economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>Revivifying economic frameworks that fail to resolve the impasse between economic development and sustainability, <em>Land and the Given Economy<\/em> offers much of interest to scholars and readers of philosophy, environmentalism, and the full spectrum of political economy.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the publisher\u2019s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nupress.northwestern.edu\/content\/land-and-given-economy\">www.nupress.northwestern.edu\/content\/land-and-given-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Todd Mei, Lecturer and Head of the Department of Philosophy, has just published a new book,\u00a0Land and the Given Economy: The Hermeneutics and Phenomenology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/30\/todd-mei-publishes-on-the-philosophy-and-economics-of-land\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}