Titre : |
Ecological economics: principles and applications |
Type de document : |
livre |
Auteurs : |
Daly, H.E. ; Farley, J.C. |
Editeur : |
Washington, D.C. : Island Press |
Année de publication : |
2004 |
Importance : |
454 p. |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-55963-312-3 |
Note générale : |
Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 05/06/2008 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Environmental economics |
Résumé : |
Conventional economics is often criticized for failing to reflect adequately the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists overlook problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources. Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this flaw in much economic thought. The book defines a revolutionary "transdiscipline" that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences, and it offers a pedagogically complete examination of this exciting new field. The book provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity. Introducing the three core issues that are the focus of the new transdiscipline -- scale, distribution, and efficiency -- the book is guided by the fundamental question, often assumed but rarely spoken in traditional texts: What is really important to us? After explaining the key roles played by the earth's biotic and abiotic resources in sustaining life, the text is then organized around the main fields in traditional economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The book also takes an additional step of considering the policy implications of this line of thinking. [Résumé éditeur] |
Note de contenu : |
Hbk; |
En ligne : |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003016785.html |
Ecological economics: principles and applications [livre] / Daly, H.E. ; Farley, J.C. . - Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2004 . - 454 p. ISBN : 978-1-55963-312-3 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 05/06/2008 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
Mots-clés : |
Environmental economics |
Résumé : |
Conventional economics is often criticized for failing to reflect adequately the value of clean air and water, species diversity, and social and generational equity. By excluding biophysical and social systems from their analyses, many conventional economists overlook problems of the increasing scale of human impacts and the inequitable distribution of resources. Ecological Economics is an introductory-level textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses this flaw in much economic thought. The book defines a revolutionary "transdiscipline" that incorporates insights from the biological, physical, and social sciences, and it offers a pedagogically complete examination of this exciting new field. The book provides students with a foundation in traditional neoclassical economic thought, but places that foundation within a new interdisciplinary framework that embraces the linkages among economic growth, environmental degradation, and social inequity. Introducing the three core issues that are the focus of the new transdiscipline -- scale, distribution, and efficiency -- the book is guided by the fundamental question, often assumed but rarely spoken in traditional texts: What is really important to us? After explaining the key roles played by the earth's biotic and abiotic resources in sustaining life, the text is then organized around the main fields in traditional economics: microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international economics. The book also takes an additional step of considering the policy implications of this line of thinking. [Résumé éditeur] |
Note de contenu : |
Hbk; |
En ligne : |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip047/2003016785.html |
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