This paper explores the way the man?nature relationship and the related environmental problems have been dealt along with the history of the economic thought. We discuss a number of different theoretical frameworks (classical, Marxian and neoclassical economics, Georgescu-Roegen's approach and...

The goal of public policies is to connect desired ends with practical means toward their achievement. How the desired ends are determined, and whose goals and objectives they incorporate, depends upon the culture and political system of the country in question. With few exceptions, policies...

This paper explores the way the man–nature relationship and the related environmental problems have been dealt along with the history of the economic thought. We discuss a number of different theoretical frameworks (classical, Marxian and neoclassical economics, Georgescu-Roegen's...

Tradable Permits – a Market-Based Allocation System for the Environment. Tradable Permits and Other Environmental Policy Instruments – Killing one Bird with two Stones. Tradable Permits – Ten Key Design Issues. Tradable Permits with Imperfect Monitoring. Emissions Trading with Greenhouse...

Regulation theory offers a cogent analytical framework to explain the contemporary environmental challenge, capitalism's responses to environmental issues and the challenge of sustainable development to accumulation. The paper outlines the insights provided by this analytical framework and seeks...

This article critiques the paper by Kennet and Heinemann, 'Comments on green economics: setting the scene. Aims, context and philosophical underpinnings of the distinctive new solutions offered by green economics'. Their task is difficult since green economics holistically embraces ideas from a...

University departments of economics have to move from monism to pluralism in the sense of encouraging competing theoretical perspectives. The tension between monism and pluralism is not limited to economics paradigms but also concerns theory of science and ideological orientation. It is argued...

The paper proposes that green economists will find the core ideas of the US pragmatist philosopher John Dewey of value both as a critique of the untenable 'rationalism' that permeates the currently dominant neoclassical economics and as an underpinning for their own more holistic, complex,...

The paper proposes that green economists will find the core ideas of the US pragmatist philosopher John Dewey of value both as a critique of the untenable 'rationalism' that permeates the currently dominant neoclassical economics and as an underpinning for their own more holistic, complex,...

Das ifo Institut hat im Auftrag des Umweltbundesamts die Teilnehmer am ifo Konjunkturtest nach ihrer Einschätzung einer »grünen Transformation« der Wirtschaft befragt. Eine grüne Wirtschaft erfordert Produkte, Produktionsprozesse und Dienstleistungen, die dazu beitragen, die wirtschaftliche...