Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird zunächst in Grundzügen beschrieben und dann hinsichtlich seiner langfristigen Tragfähigkeit kritisch reflektiert: Wir unterscheiden hierbei zwei gegensätzliche Standpunkte: Einen optimistischen und einen pessimistischen. Welchen man einnimmt, hängt wesentlich...

To answer the question "How to be an Ecological Economist", we must start by defining the field of Ecological Economics. Mainstream Economics altogether lacks the concepts required to deal adequately with nature, justice and time. It was the absence of these three concepts in this otherwise...

In this paper the view of humankind and nature upon which the thinking of Malthus is founded will be reflected on and contrasted with the opposed understanding of his contemporary Wordsworth. We show that the economic considerations of both are based decidedly on the premise of these views, and...

Our aim in this essay is to identify and analyze some of the difficulties with interdisciplinary integration of economic and ecological contributions to the study of biodiversity loss. We develop our analysis from a widely accepted definition of economics which is based on the concept of...