1st Edition

Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Coevolutionary Political Economy

By Kenneth M. Stokes Copyright 1993
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

This four-part monograph traces the dialectical development of economic thought from the Physiocrats through Marx to the present. It is a broad treatment of the history of intellectual thought that bridges economic and the social sciences on the one hand, with natural science and biology in particular on the other. The author is concerned with systems theory and treats the economy from the... Read more
1: Philosophical Origins of Open-Systems Economic Analysis; 2: Broadening Economic Analysis: The Early Contribution of the General Theory of Organization; 3: Neo-Physiocratic and Biophysical Models of the Economic Process; 4: Beyond Entropy and the Economic Process: Broadening Economic Analysis from a Systems Theoretical Approach; 5: General Conclusions

Biography

Kenneth M. Stokes