The solutions and tools generally offered to policy-makers on environmental issues most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods from the sphere of ecological accounting.

Jacques Richard is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris Dauphine, France. He is also a former chartered accountant and counsellor of trade unions, and former member of the Authority of Accounting Standards (Paris). In 2013 he received the "Best Manuscript Award" from the Academy of Accounting Historians.

General introduction PART I Why are the tools of dominant economists inadequate for ecology 1 Historical presentation of the tools of the dominant economists 2 Theoretical critiques of the tools of dominant economists by other economists Conclusion of the first part PART II Why accountant's tools are needed to solve ecological problems 3 The birth of modern accounting and its ignorance by most economists 4 The interest of the knowledge of capitalist accounting for an anticapitalist economic revolution Conclusion of the second part PART III How to use accounting concepts to rebuild an ecological and humanitarian economy 5 The basic principles of new economics and management: the CARE/TDL model 6 Appliance of the CARE/TDL model to microeconomics: the case of green house gases 7 Application of the CARE / TDL method to national accounts Conclusion of the third part PART IV Is there any hope to see the use of The CARE / TDL Model today? 8 The problems of the diversity of environmental (ecological) accounting systems and green finance 9 The current proposals of the experts of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Conclusion of the fourth part General conclusion