1st Edition

Human Ecology Economics A New Framework for Global Sustainability

Edited By Roy E. Allen Copyright 2008
320 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents ‘human ecology economics’ as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ‘world conditions and human systems’. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates over humankind’s present problems and on the ways that they can be solved. Authors contributing to... Read more

1. A Human Ecology Approach to Economics (Roy E. Allen), 2. Ideologies, Mythologies, and ‘Ways of Being’ in the Economic System (Roy E. Allen), 3. Long-run Innovation and Evolution in the Economic System (George Modelski), 4. Recent Wealth Creation and Transfer in the Human Ecology (Roy E. Allen), 5. Money and Capital in the Human Ecology: Rethinking Mercantilism and 18th Century France (Guillaume Daudin), 6. Energy and Growth in the Human Ecology: An Alternate View Based on ‘Consilience’ with the Natural Sciences (Bernard Beaudreau), 7. Energy in the Human Ecology: Expanding Market Institutions (Asbjorn Moseidjord), 8. Sustainability of the Human Ecology: The Need to Readjust What We Know With What We Imagine (Antonio Cassella), 9. Strange Priors: Understanding Controversies Associated with ‘Globalization’ (Donald Snyder), 10. The Peasant Betrayed: Land Tenure and Land Reform in Nepal (Ravi Bhandari)

Biography

Roy E. Allen