1st Edition

Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought Reassessing the Legacy of the Classics

Edited By Vitor Eduardo Schincariol Copyright 2024
230 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume proposes a reconsideration of ecological and environmental aspects of the work and ideas of various heterodox authors and traditions in the history of economic thought, including the field of economic development. Many of the contributors to this book focus on thinkers and works which are not typically considered as part of the ecological sphere, while others consider such... Read more

PART I: Classical political economy and the surplus approach

1. Introduction

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol

2. Adam Smith as ecological economist

Leo Steeds

3. On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition

Chandni Dwarkasing

 

PART II: Institutional and post-Keynesian economics

4. Ecology and environment in home economics

David Philippy and Marco P. Vianna Franco

5. Nature, exploitation and institutions: on the political ecology of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Polanyi

Manuel Ramon Souza Luz and Ramon Garcia Fernandez

6. Principles for building a post-Keynesian environmental macroeconomics: revisiting Keynes in times of crises

Marcio Alvarenga Junior and Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young

7. Environment, development and equity in the work of Geoff Harcourt

Shachi Amdekar and Matthew Fright

 

PART III: Economic development

8. Reflections on economic development and environment

Alessandro Roncaglia and (late) Paolo Sylos Labini

9. Celso Furtado on natural resources, the environment and ecology: economic development between myth and utopia

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol

10. The evolution of the ecological perspective in Latin American Structuralism

Gabriel Porcile and Miguel Torres

11. Bioeconomic and resilient development strategies in face of Covid-19 in the South: the example of Senegal

Abdourahmane Ndiaye and Muhammad Ba      

 

Biography

Vitor Eduardo Schincariol holds a PhD in economic history from the University of São Paulo and is Associate Professor of Economic History and Political Economy at the Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.