The Basic Economic Framework of Sustainability

The number of questions related to climate, pollution, mass extinction, threats from technology, are on a rise. How to understand our place within the environment, how to create a link between our economy and the environment, how to evaluate natural resources compared to market values?

This book is seeking answers to the questions what sustainability means, what happens when our economy, our practice, our life, our political-economic establishment are unsustainable, if the reasonable and theoretically optimal use of resources does sum up to sustainability on the global scale, how technology affects sustainability, if there is anything missing from the Demand-Supply graph.

My work intends to answer the less pronounced questions like how to make decisions if our way of life is sustainable or not; in case our answer is not, what we should take into consideration when we look for the way forward.

Imre Major, 48, father of two, is a Hungarian economist with a degree in law. During his professional career, he has worked mostly in the telecommunications, plastic processing, IT and automotive industries. He is usually referred to as the person who possesses the most pieces of irrelevant information.

Most of the time, Imre goes his own way independently of the expectations or against them. He tries to cope with the arising problems he causes himself and lives with the problems he causes others. After he has started to see the whole picture of human nature and more generally about life in an original way, he aims to deepen and share his understanding in specific fields.

This is his second book, exploring the sustainability context of the full picture. This time the goal is to enhance environmental understanding and more general sustainability aspects related to human nature and behaviour.