Environment and Ecology in the History of Economic Thought

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

PART I: Classical political economy and the surplus approach 1. Introduction 2. Adam Smith as ecological economist 3. On the accommodation of the ecological question in the Sraffian tradition PART II: Institutional and Post-Keynesian Economics 4. Environment and ecology in home economics 5. Nature, exploitation and institutions: on the political ecology of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Polanyi 6. Some Post-Keynesian principles for an environmental macroeconomics 7. Environment, development and equity in the work of Geoff Harcourt PART III: Economic development 8. Reflections on economic development and environment 9. Celso Furtado and environmental sustainability: economic development between myth and utopia Vitor Eduardo Schincariol 10. The evolution of the ecological perspective in Latin American Structuralism 11. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the management of extractive resources