"Green Economics"
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
David Pearce analyzes the features and possible outcome of green economics.
Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.
Diane Saxe argues that a stronger “fiduciary” duty is required where corporations take risks with the environment and that economic activities must move from open to closed (sustainable) systems.
Michael Everett examines how environmental movements develop and how they deal with economic counterforces and motivate political actors to pass effective environmental regulations.
Schmidt outlines the meaning and main phases of “economization” as a civilizing process, arguing that “ecologization” ’ of the current political-economic regime can be regarded as a continuation of this development. Due attention is given to the social conditions which may be favourable or impedimental to an ecologization of the economy. This article asks that environmental policies use the so-called trickle-down effect to their advantage.
Markus Peterson and Tarla Rai Peterson outline the history of valuation techniques using the Exxon Valdez disaster response and the valuation of whooping cranes as examples of how these tools can constrain policy, presenting an ethical dilemma for democracies by naturalizing, then ethicizing, existing patterns of domination.
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
Mark Sagoff discusses the four dogmas of environmental economics.
Bryan G. Norton makes a case for why economists must engage in interdisciplinary work that will clarify how preferences in relation to the environment are formed, criticised, and reformed.
Russell Keat presents a critical evaluation of Mark Sagoff’s critique of economistic approaches to environmental decision-making in The Economy of the Earth.