The

Ecologist

Vol 9No 6 Sept./Oct. 1979

Editoria l

Nicholas Hildyard Crime and Punishment 182

Featur e Article s

Ross Hume Hall The Hospital Food Scandal * 184

American Hospitals have abandoned their traditional kitchens and adopted fast-food catering services. Patients are now served wit h food o f minimal nutritonal value.

A sit K. Biswas Climate and Economic Development 188

Economists have consistently ignored the influence of climatic factors on economic development i n the Tropics. The result: a series of environmental disasters.

Edward Goldsmith The Need for a New Economics 196

Modern economics must be completely re-examined i n the context of man's total experience on this planet and that of natural systems i n general.

Ken Penney Economics for a Post-industrial Society 200

Modern economic theory is based on a mechanistic view of the universe and economists rarely take account of environmental and social factors i n their planning. I t is time to reconsider the orthodox economic model.

Report

Charles Komanoff Capital Calamity 209

The economic fall-out from Harrisburg .

Gleaning s 210

BOOKS 212

LETTERS 216

Cover Picture by Food and Agricultura l Organisation. Lay-out by Mike Frost.

Note: While every care is taken with manuscripts submitted for publication, the Editors cannot guarantee to return those not accepted. Articles published in the Ecologist do not necessarily express the views of the Editors.

Published by Edward Goldsmith, Ecosystems Ltd, 73 Molesworth Street, Wadebridge, Cornwall PL27 7DS, UK. Editors: Edward Goldsmith, Nicholas Hildyard. Managing Editor: Maria Parsons.

Book Review Editor: Ruth Lumley-Smith. Associate Editors: Robert Allen, Peter Bunyard, Brian Johnson, Bernard Gilbert, Jimo Omo-Fadaka, Andrew MacKillop, Robert Waller, Lawrence Hills, John Papworth, Nicholas Gould, Raymond Dasmann, Richard Wilson, John Milton (USA), Henryk Skolimowski (USA), Manfred Siebker, Sigmund Kval0y (Norway). ISSN 0141-6952

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