Ecological economics : energy, environment and society

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Ecological economics : energy, environment and society

Juan Martinez-Alier with Klaus Schlüpmann

Basil Blackwell, 1987

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Ecologisme i l'economia

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Expanded and rearranged translation of: L'ecologisme i l'economia

Bibliography: p. [248]-273

Includes index

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This important and original book explores a subject of growing significance. Acknowledging that the use of monetary value as a measuring rod is of limited applicability in assessing environmental and resource questions, "Ecological Economics" focuses instead on the crucial role played by the flows of energy and materials in the economy. Despite the dramatic increase in attention paid to ecological economics by mainstream economists since the first energy crisis of the early 1970s, the subject is by no means as new as is often supposed. On the contrary, as Dr Martinez-Alier shows, it has a long and distinguished history and an extensive literature, much of it generated by the physicists, biologists and chemists of the 19th century. His discussion of these writers brings into the open for the first time a tradition of investigation and analysis which is of great contemporary relevance.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Modern Agriculture: A Source of Energy?
  • 3. The History of Agricultural Energetics: Podolinsky
  • 4. Eduard Sacher's Formulation of Podolinsky's Principle
  • 5. Rudolf Clausius: On the Energy Stocks in Nature
  • 6. Patrick Geddes' Critique of Economics
  • 7. The Carrying Capacity of the Earth, According to Pfaundler
  • 8. Henry Adams' Law of Acceleration in the Use of Energy
  • 9. Soddy's Critique of the Theory of Economic Growth
  • 10. Lancelot Hogben VS. Hayek
  • 11. Methodological Individualism and Intergenerational Allocation
  • 12. Max Weber's Chrematistic Critique of Wilhelm Ostwald
  • 13. Ecological Utopianism: Popper-Lynkeus and Ballod-Atlanticus
  • 14. The History of the Future
  • 15. Political Epilogue.

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