Economics of a Crowded Planet

• Main Author: Murison Smith, Fraser (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Environmental economics.; Climate change.; Environmental policy.; Economic policy.; Schools of economics.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change.; Environmental Policy.; Economic Policy.; Heterodox Economics.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper? Written mainly for a technical audience, yet accessible to the lay reader, Economics of a Crowded Planet addresses the ontology, epistemology and methodology of a future econom...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Biophysical Context of the Economy
• 3. Simple Physical Model of Nature and Economy
• 4. Subsystem Model of the Economy
• 5. Rationale for an Economics of a Crowded Planet
• 6. Economic Orthodoxy and Emerging Pluralism
• 7. The Economics of Nature
• 8. Conventional Economics On a Crowded Planet
• 9. Framework for an Economics of a Crowded Planet
• 10. Requirements for a Future Economics.